Hi Victor:

Thank you for that excellent guide on forwarding ports. I presume this has to be done both on my computer (which hopes to access the remote clients pc), and the clients pc as well?


>>Hi Victor:
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>>>There are a couple of things you need to do.
>>>1. On the client...use the remote pc's external IP address.
>>>2. On the linksys router used by the remote machine...forward ports 5800 and 5900 to the local IP address of the remote machine (this will be 192.168.1.102) -- If you need help fowarding the ports let me know.
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>>Kindly guide me about forwarding ports.
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>1. Open a broswer and type this in:
>192.168.1.1
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>2. It will be asking you for a username and password.
>Leave the username blank...
>and for the password use this: Admin
>....(that is the default for linksys routers)
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>3. Now you will see the interface for the router.
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>4. Along the top you will see some buttons...click on the one that says "Advanced"
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>5. Now click on the button that says "forwarding".
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>6. Here you can enter ports, and ip address.
>For the ports want you to enter a 'range' (like 5800 - 5900 - there are two textboxes there..one for the 'from port' and the other for the 'to port'). If you want you can enter 5800-5800 and 5900-5900 and use 2 lines instead of one. There will be some checkboxes for tcp and udp. I suggest you click both of those. Then the last thing is to enter the IP address...that will be the local IP address of the machine you're on. (192.168.1.102 I think in your case).
>I know this step probably sounds confusing...but once you're looking at the interface you'll find it very simple.
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>7. Somewhere on that same screen (probably at the very bottom) it there will be a button that says "save changes". Click on that and now you're router settings have been updated.
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>You can use this same process to forward other ports as well. For example...you might want one of the machines on the network to be able to use NetMeeting. Generally you can find out what ports a program uses in their help file or online somewhere. For the netmeeting one the answer is here.. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q158/6/23.asp&NoWebContent=1
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>Hope this helps.
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>>>3. You might want to do the same port-fowarding trick on the client machine too.
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>>Thank you for your response.