Success with VNC Accesing 2 Computers on Netork?

Question

Hi Everyone,
Has anyone had success using VNC and being able to access 2 separate computers on their Linksys network?
I understand that this should be able to be accomplished by going into the port forwarding section of the router setup screen and forwarding a different port for each computer using the computer’s internal, static IP address.  
I’ve found a few messages of people having problems doing this, but didn’t come across any who reported they were finally successful with this setup.
I’ve been trying to accomplish this using PCAnywhere, but after spending 2 hours on the phone working with one of Symantec’s own techs, who couldn’t get this to work, I am ready to give up on PCAnywhere and am thinking about giving VNC a try.
Any feedback and experiences with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian

Answer 1

Correct. You can only forward a single port once. The router also does not do port redirection which means you must use different ports on the computers.
For example:
Computer 1, 192.168.1.31, uses server with port 7000.
Computer 2, 192.168.1.32, uses server with port 7001.
Computer 3, 192.168.1.33, uses server with port 7002.
Now you forward port 7000 on the router to 192.168.31, 7001 to 192.168.1.32 and 7002 to 192.168.1.33.
The important thing is to reconfigure the server on the computer to use different ports as well. You must also make sure to open the port in the firewall of the computer if it runs any.
See here for a more complete checklist regarding port forwarding issues.