realvnc enterprise

[tremmor]

i installed realvnc and have it working on the lan side fine. I can not get it to work on the wan side. just get and error timeout or can't find it. i took down the firewall and antivirus. turned off the windows firewall and have the same problem. ive tried the viewer and firefox with same results going directly to my wanort . tried dyndns. i suspect it may be the router. i don't know. im spending way to much time on this.

any suggestions or ideas?

 

[tlarkin]

Two things for you

1) If you are behind a router that uses NAT (which almost all of them do) you will need to forward that port to a specific client on your network. If I recall VNC uses like port 5800 or 5900

2) If you are going to do this please be sure that you use very strong passwords and make sure that your passwords are sent encrypted and not in plain text. There are many botters and hackers out there that just port scan all day every and and try many dictionary attacks.

 

[tremmor]

Bam...........got her up. thanks for the lead. sometime and mostly its another thought i need. thankyou very much.

 

[tlarkin]

Just make sure you use strong passwords and send your password encrypted over the WAN. There are plenty of Russian and Chinese hackers that will port scan block sets of IPs, and they will see you have VNC port open, and then come the dictionary attacks and sniffers.

 

[tremmor]

the password encryption part. are you talking about just vnc encryption or something else.
thanks

 

[tlarkin]

the password encryption part. are you talking about just vnc encryption or something else.
thanks

yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. A lot of those 'free' VNC applications don't encrypt the connection or the sending of the password. If you send it in plain text and someone is sniffing you out since they realized you have port 5800 open, they can gain access to your computer. If it is a Windows machine that is even worse since every user pretty much runs as root.