Wii Networking, and VNC

[littlebitstrouds]

Ok, I'm not an idiot. I know my way around a computer, but this is one thing that for some reason I can't figure out. So I have a Wii, and I've downloaded TVersity and I install it, go to my router and forward all the necessary ports to my computer's router ip, call it 192.168.0.4. Ok so I go to my Wii and type in my computer's ip: 192.168.0.4. (with all the necessary stuff around it as instructed by tversity). Nothing. I type in my actual IP address thinking my router will get the request and locally forward it to my computer... nothing.

Ok, now I've never been able to get VNC to work, probably for the same reason and would appreciate being able to kill two birds with one stone. any ideas?

Computer......Wii
.............\....../....
.............Router
.................l.......
........Cable Modem

That's the basic setup, if that makes sense

 

[tw1164]

I think you'll have to use an ip address like computer IP:<port number used> (192.168.0.4:3829)

 

[littlebitstrouds]

that's the basic setup yah, to put in the port number but that doesn't work. Still no go for getting this thing to work.

 

[JackMDS]

From were to were you are trying to connected it seems that your are confused between in LAN communication, and communication through the Internet.

The Router has nothing to do with in LAN communication.

From the Internet into your system you can not use Loacl IPs.

As for VNC, http://www.ezlan.net/vnc.html

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Hmmm I swear I tried port forwarding the correct port, than in my Wii Explorer used my actual IP address and still got no results. Though I will try it again tonight.

 

[littlebitstrouds]

I'm following every instruction possible and I'm still getting nothing. Is there some sort of firewall that I'm not getting? I can't find one on my router, and I've tried installing both vnc and tversity on non-firewalled Windows XP machines and Vista machines to no avail. I know there's something I'm overlooking that's not in the basic "quick guides" that I keep finding for setting these type of connections up.

 

[tw1164]

Try Orb

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Originally posted by: tw1164
Try Orb

while this might help me view some of my media somewhere else, it's not really solving my networking problem: why can't I access my computer remotely?

 

[tw1164]

can you ping your wii

 

[littlebitstrouds]

using msdos pinger, I ping my normal ip 69.**.**.230 and it times out. I also ping the same with :5810 (the port being forwarded to my computer) and that's not a valid address. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Thorin78]

I've got your basic setup as well. I have VNC setup on my desktop and use the vnc viewer on my laptop. When the laptop is behind the router, i can use like 192.168.1.2 to view the desktop, but i don't recall if it worked. However when I take my laptop outside of the router, when I'm on a different network, starbucks or something, I had to use my cable modem's IP, but it would never connect. So i had to put the desktop in the DMZ, for the desktop ip to be "outside" of the router. Hopefully that makes sense. From there on, I could connect to the desktop anywhere I was at. So there you go. hopefully that helps.

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Originally posted by: Thorin78
So i had to put the desktop in the DMZ, for the desktop ip to be "outside" of the router.

I'm not sure what "in the DMZ" means. If it means I have to plug it into the cable modem directly, ugh that would be frustrating, seeing as I was hoping to fix the problem so I could control mine, and my roomates computers, which are on the network, while I'm away. I'm constantly asked to help my friends out with their computer problems and it would be a lot easier to just be able to set this kind of thing up so I can just take control of their pc's when they need the help.

 

[Thorin78]

No, the DMZ zone is a specific setting that allows a computer connected to the router to be outside of the router's functions. If that makes any sense. What router do you have? I've never been able to setup the VNC thing through a router unless I let that pc to be outside of the router's functionality. If you want to control multiple computers then I don't know if I can help you there. But I can try.

You may have to get a router that supports VPN if you can't get the vnc thing to work. However you might want to look into MSN Messenger. I think it has the ability to let others share desktops. This would be easier than VNC. You would just be able to control their PC through MSN Messenger.

 

[Thorin78]

It's under Request Remote Assistance when you right click on the user thru MSN Messenger.

Start Activity -> Request remote assistance.

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Well I think I got VNC to work, I'll know tomorrow for sure but wow thanks for that help. Now I just want to get tversity up.