Hi, I've been trying to set up TightVNC (a remote administration app) on one of the computers on my LAN. I've got it all working internally, I can connect from other machines on the network by typing the LAN IP into a web browser or the VNC client. However, the problem comes when someone attempts to access it from outside my network. I enlisted the help of a friend for this one because my router does not support loopback. I went to my router's virtual server setup and set it to forward ports 5800 and 5900 (the ports used by the app) to the LAN IP of the server machine. I had the friend enter http://<my IP>:5900 into their browser but it turned up a page not found... When I do that with the internal IP it downloads a small java app and starts the VNC. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong? I'm pretty stumped here. Thanks.

Hi, 5900 is the VNC client port. Try http:\\MyIP:5800 or just \\MyIP (no port) in the VNC Client Peter

Well I feel rather stupid about this now, I just forgot to restart the router. However, now I have encountered another problem. The clients can't connect to the machine. They get to the applet just fine in their web browsers, but when they enter the password it doesn't let them connect, says there is an error. Also, when I close the config window and reopen it again, the password boxes have got different numbers of characters in them to when I input the passwords... Have they actually changed or does it just display like that? Thanks for the response.