I have VNC viewer on my home computer (XP) and I can connect to work (Windows 2000) from home. Is it possible to connect to home from work?
I use the computer and domain name to connect to the work computer, but I don’t have a domain name at home. Do I need a static IP address at home? Am I blabbering about stuff that doesn’t even make a difference for connecting?
Your confusing me, your trying to connect to work from home, or vise versa? Either way with VNC Viewer, you can use your static or dynamic ip address to connect. Just remember that your dynamic IP is leased on a specific amount of time from your ISP before you will recieve a new one. Either way, you should be able to connect both ways. Another fancy free tool if you have dynamic IP at home is No-IP. It’s a more simplified DNS dummy tool that you would not have to use you IP address, but instead a url. (Example 99.100.100.100 would be your IP, but you would use yamahas-world.no-ip.org)
I’m trying to connect from work to home. I got my IP address at home and had someone at work try to connect but it didn’t work. Do I have to give the work IP address permission to connect or something?
I just added the work one to the “allow” list so maybe that will work.
this will help you with the DNS issue
That will definitely help with the changing IP address.
Unfortunately I can’t ping it from work. Firewall issue?
Have you installed the VNC server on your home PC?
Have you setup hardware and software firewall exceptions?
I see you have Comcast. Most likely ping is disabled on your Comcast domain because I can still trace it.
Comcast uses DHCP but my IP never changed(for 4yrs) so I was able to vnc\ftp to home from work allowing connections to the respective ports to be routed to the static IP of my server on the LAN side.
I then had a VNC server connection password set on top of windows logon.
It’s possible your work firewall is filtering outgoing connections but thats not usually the case. Most of the time they are wide open, outgoing, but anything is possible.
I just use xp’s remote desktop to connect to my home pc from anywhere with an internet connection. You have to allow a certain port on your router(I forget what it is), your ip address, and you’re golden.
i believe default rdp port is 3389… but if he’s using VNC for work already, why not use it at home?
well?
I haven’t had time to mess with it at work.
Yes VNC is installed at home and I THINK I allowed access from the work IP. I’m just kind of winging it here with limited knowledge.
Thanks for the help so far.