Hello All, I'm struggling badly with VNC at the moment. I've tried everything I can think of and have run out of ideas. What I am trying to do is pretty standard I think. I have a computer at home which I want to access from Work using VNC. My work has a firewall which I have no access to and no info about but it seems to block almost everything. My PC at home just conencts through a modem to broadband and has a tiny firewall on it. I have tried a direct connection using realVNC which obviously didn't work. I tried to set up an SSH tunnel before I realised I needed to be able to port forward which I can't do because I have no access to the work firewall. So then I came across echoVNC/echoServer and thought this was the answer to all my problems: First I tried setting up echoVNC to connect to a demo echoServer that was mentioned on the sourceforge website but echoVNC at work wouldn't connect to it. I then thought i'd try and set up an echoServer at home. The echoserver is running fine at home on port 1328. The echoVNC at home connects to this ok and looks like it is runnning fine and I have tightVNC serever running on top of all that. Once again, the problem is connecting to this from work. When I try and connect to the echoServer in echoVNC, it doesn't connect. I put in the same IP address and port as I do from home but it doesn't seem to see it from work. Any idea why this would be? Anyway, this is a showstopper as far as echoVNC is. TightVNC doesn't connect directly from work (port5900 and port 5800http) using the normal viewer. However, if I try accessing things using a browser, I get a bit more success. If I try the ip address along with port 1328, I get "KaboodleProxy_Protocol Version 1.0_Server Version 1.0" which I assume is the echoServer talking back. If I try the ip address along with port 5800, It try's to connect using Java and offers me the chance to put in my password but then comes back with "Network Error: could not connect to server: <ip address>:5900" So I guess my questions are: Why can't I get echoVNC at work to connect to my echoServer at home...and is there a way to do this? Why do I get the network error? Can anyone suggest a set up that might actually work? An answer to any or all of the above would be greatly appreciated, Best Regards, Andrew

Andrew, sounds to me like the work firewall gets it's shorts in a bunch if you try to contact any save approved sites (maybe to block access to porn?). Suggest you contact your IT Dept. and see if you can get a special dispensation from the pope for the connection. HTH.