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General Category => Software => Topic started by: realVNC is confusing me!! on November 07, 2005, 06:56:22 PM

Title: can connect from one pc
Post by: realVNC is confusing me!! on November 07, 2005, 06:56:22 PM

i have real vnc and so does my brothers pc. from his pc i can connect to mine easily. but from my pc i can not connect to his???? what the [censored]! it is frusterating me! i have his i.p. address right but i keep getting "unable to connect to host: connection timed out (10600)" please help !!!!!!!!!!!

Title: can connect from one pc
Post by: Hugh G. Rection on November 07, 2005, 07:17:23 PM

http://www.realvnc.com/support.html (http://\"http://www.realvnc.com/support.html\")

Title: can connect from one pc
Post by: ian on November 07, 2005, 07:22:30 PM

thanks, but ive already looked at all of that. theres nothing different about how my vnc is configured than his is configured. his works to view mine, but mine wont view his

Title: can connect from one pc
Post by: ian on November 07, 2005, 07:22:56 PM

by the way we are both running the free version.

Title: can connect from one pc
Post by: mkda on November 07, 2005, 07:30:11 PM

u tried this?

"Why can't my VNC viewer connect to my VNC server?
VNC requires TCP/IP network connectivity between the viewer and server computers. A simple test is to use the ping utility. If you can't ping from your viewer to your server, and vice-versa, than VNC will not work!"

Title: can connect from one pc
Post by: Guest on November 07, 2005, 07:38:08 PM

im sorry, i have no clue how to "ping" this is the first day in my life ive ever heard of it. im not an idiot on computers though, just dont know what the hell ping means