I installed SUSE 9.1 Pro on an old pc last night. I have a DLink router and cable modem for internet access. I have a couple windows machines behomd the router also.

I turned on remote admin and configured the router to pass ports 5801 and 5901 to the linux box. From outside, when I connect using a webbrowser to x.x.x.x:5801 . . . i get the expected VNC Authentication screen on the web browser with the password box and an OK button. I enter the password and click OK and I get the following:

Network error: could not connect to server: x.x.x.x:5901

Is this the return traffic coming back to me?

When I do this from inside my network using web browser 192..168.0.x:5801 it works fine. I am assuming I missed something on my router config ???

wayne

For this to work your router needs to forward 5901 inside as well.

You should really forward 22 and wrap the whole thing in SSH tunnels though. I don't trust VNC enough for it to be facing the internet.

I did . . . I setup the router to forward port 5801 and 5901 to the linux box. Do I need to map port 5801 on the outside to port 5901 on the inside?

I would like to get this working, then I'll work on the ssh portion.

wayne

Well I never got VNC running correctly. I got putty. setup a ssh tunnel and can now run VNC through the ssh tunnel . . . . it works, not fast but it works.