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fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Connecting from outside - Connection refused

Hey,

I am trying to connect to my home computer using VNC / FreeNX.

When trying to connect from inside the home network, everything works OK (using the internal network IP).
But, when trying to connect to the same computer using its internet IP, I get "connection refused".

Please note that I use a router for my home network, and I have DMZ enabled to the desktop computer.
I know that DMZ works OK (checked it with aMule).

hosts.allow and hosts.deny both contain nothing.

Tnx
Fiod

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Connecting from outside - Connection refused

Check the logs on the box you're trying to connect to - you should be able to determine whether the connection attempt reached it and was rejected for some reason, or didn't reach it at all. In the first case, the log messages should give you some idea on how to fix it; in the second case, the problem would be on your router.

fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: Connecting from outside - Connection refused

tnx for the reply.

Which logs exactly should contain the connection attempts information?

Tnx
fiod