VNC OS X remote

Have a home network. 2 W2k computers, one hard wired and a laptop. Have our mac hard wired as well.
I can connect From my Mac to my two W2k computers without problem.
I can connect from my two w2k computers to each other without problem.
I cannot connect from my w2k computers to the mac.
I have enabled Apple remote desktop and setup a password
Apple firewall is off (behind a router/firewall)
when I open VNC on my laptop I get the password screen (this tells me its at least connecting). I enter the password and then I get error:
"Read: Connection aborted (10053)
Do you wish to attempt to reconnect to 192.168.1.100?"
What am I doing wrong?

Hia, If you have'nt resolved your problem which seems to be you can't operate any VNC apps.
I trust you have your SSH enabled in System Prefs.
My solution (using 2 macs with 10.4) was to use 2 programs. One, the VNC app for the controlling machine, "Chicken of the VNC"- This is free. The other app is called "Vine Server" and this is for the machine you will be conrtrolling.
Set up your VNC server (the Mac you will control externally) in "Vine Server" and find it on the other computer using Chicken of the VNC. This way you get both apps for free. You can use ethernet cable (faster) or airport extreme (a bit slower) or ordinary airport (fukin slow) for your connection. You will see whatever you do on the controlling computer on the controlled one (server), sound will only come out of the server

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