shuraizo | # 1 | 2012-01-03, 23:08 | Report

I have a problem remoting my home desktop through tightvnc,

My home desktop and n900 have different network, because i want to be able to monitor it while i'm away
So I followed this port forwarding guide precisely

http://portforward.com/english/route.../Tight_VNC.htm

I've set up my static ip address, put it on the router port forward setting just like the guide says.
Tight vnc is already on the firewall exceptions,

But it still won't connect over the internet on my N900,
Am i missing something here?

Oh and i'm connecting it from n900 using external IP address of the router

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Last edited by shuraizo; 2012-01-03 at 23:27.

shuraizo | # 2 | 2012-01-04, 00:02 | Report

I can ping to router's External ip address just fine, no RTO,
so the problem must be on the port forward

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eight | # 3 | 2012-01-04, 01:06 | Report

Is it working when you connect local on the home pc?
With "telnet ip-adress 5800" you can test if portforwarding of port 5800 to vncserver works from outside.

edit:
Just saw you have a wrt54g, a very nice router. But not with the original Firmware.
I would suggest to flash it to dd-wrt when you have some spare time, to unleash the power.

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Last edited by eight; 2012-01-04 at 01:16.

shuraizo | # 4 | 2012-01-04, 01:15 | Report

Yep it's working,
I can remote just fine when i connect it to my local wifi (same connection)
hmm thanks for the info i'll try that once i'm done with this

Addison | # 5 | 2012-01-04, 01:35 | Report

Slightly off topic.

But have you also installed the mirage driver for tightvnc?

It makes a much improved difference than without it.

shuraizo | # 6 | 2012-01-04, 01:44 | Report

Thanks for the tips, i'll check the difference once i get this working..

Hmm after reading somewhere else it says that it's recommended to use ssh, is it absolutely necessary?
But i don't think that's gonna solve this problem right?

eight | # 7 | 2012-01-04, 02:13 | Report

It is necessary if you want to keep your desktop stream privat, tunneling over ssh encrypts all vnc data.
And it could solve your problem, as you first connect to a ssh-server on the desktop, and then to a tunneled port of vnc. So for this you have to get portforwarding to ssh (22) working, and over this every port can be tunneled.

It is even possible to install a ssh-server on the wrt54g.

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shuraizo | # 8 | 2012-01-04, 09:27 | Report

Managed to get it work with the help of a friend

It's nice but I'm getting black screens occassionally, is there any fix for this?

gregoranderson | # 9 | 2012-01-04, 09:33 | Report

Re the black screen ; vnc can clash with terminal services. Try changing to 5801 and 5901 (whicb would be hostname:1 in vnc connection terms)

shuraizo | # 10 | 2012-01-04, 09:44 | Report

Sorry where do i have to change this ?
On the router or on the server?