VNC problems... error 10061

Oh forgot bout that. heh... so do I just punch my IP into remote desktop at school and it'll connect to home? Also, will someone at home be able to tell if I am remote desktopped? My mom'd flip if she knew I was doing this kinda stuff... *she's an anti-computer nutcase* K i opened remote desktop(im at home) and was pokin round, it had a thing about domain and password? Would I need that to connect to my comp frfom school? Thanks

[Jason425]

well the comp was on and locked, and it usually works even when it's locked. I've never seen vnc work outside of the same network...

I ue to be a network manager in a school about 3 yrs back so heres the low down on RD and VNC:

Internally many of these ports will be allowed. But unless the school fills in a chnage control form then externall BESS or SWGFL will not allow anything other than FTP 21 HTTP 80,8080. Even if they open 3398 for RD / term services of the VNC port(s) it will be restricted to one or several interanl ip addresses. If the school has a sensibile IT policy then these will no not accessable to you!

VNC does work if if you configure ans use it properly, i have a win2k srv box with a fixed ip @ home and i rin VNC on this works a treat, i also run terminal serivces over 3398 which works fine.

Even if they open 3398 for RD / term services

Typo? RDP uses 3389.

another way is to use something like a port 80 redirect, u can get one from no-ip.com (only works for java viewer, make url point at 5800). but apparently, all port blockings at my school have miraculously disapeared and i can use vnc completly without having to use that. tis strange no?


**oops didnt realize this topic was a month old sry

I am having a problem accessing my home computer from work(or anywhere else). At home I have opened up port 5900 and 5800 on my SMC router and have opened up 5900 and 5800 on my Trendmicro firewall and the XP firewall. I have two computers at home that are not networked but go through the same SMC router. I can access the RealVNC server from my other home computer (also able to access it from Java) but I cannot access my home realvnc server from any other computer(not able to access from Java anywhere else either). Any ideas? Why does it work from my other home computer and not from outside computers. Thanks, Lee