Noob VNC question

feriso · 14 Apr 2008 at 21:07

Looking for a remote set up for VNC control and I'm new to this.

I have a main desktop but I also have a HTPC. I'd liek to remotely control the htpc (via vnc?) but also connect to my dad's pc over the internet.

Looked at suggestions of hamachi/logmeinfree/ultravnc but they all seem to do pretty much the same thing.

Do I take it that when I am installing the progs that my main PC will be the server and the others the clients

Thanks and sorry for really noob questions.

feriso · 14 Apr 2008 at 21:33

Any preference on which vnc prog to use? Needs to be free really.

feriso · 14 Apr 2008 at 22:45

OK, got tightvnc up and running; trouble is though is that it'll not connect to the remote computer if I type in the IP address of the server in the viewer; however it will connect if I put it in listening mode and initiate the connection from the server side.... wierd(!) any ideas on settings that I may have missed?

feriso · 15 Apr 2008 at 14:51

IIRC windows firewall is on on both machines; both machines are on my LAN, my main is wired, my htpc is wireless though I don't think that should make any difference.

My router is Speedtouch 585v6 with the firewall active to the internet so that shouldn't have any affect on this.