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Can't even ping my dad

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Zoinks

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I'm trying to connect to my dad's computer over the internet. I pinging times out with no response.

He's using norton internet security which is turned off when I am trying. The Linksys gateway is set to his computer being the DMZ. There is nothing else running that I can find that would block anything. The windows firewall is off.

Is there a program out there or anything that I can use to figure out what is blocking things? He can ping me and surf the net etc... so I'm sure we're both connected to the net. Something has to be blocking things at his end right?
 
Thanks for the link. But first its RealVNC not ultra but it looks like the both use port 5900.

Second, VNC did not work after making his computer DMZ which should forward all ports to his computer. There is only one computer on his gateway and no ports are blocked or anything.

Well, with that not working I thought I would just try to see if I could ping it but nothing. Doesn't this mean something actively running in windows is blocking/igoring the ping?
 
It is a little hard to understand what your are actually Pinging (discarding pings on a WAN comunucation is pretty common on a lot of systems).

I gave you the link with the hope that you can try something that most people are familiar with and it works.

RealVNC, Ultr@VNC, any VNC works basically in a similar way.

:sun:
 
To make RealVNC work, turn off the DMZ on your Dad's router (bad idea with the wide variety of crap on the networ, particularly since you also turned off his Norton Firewall) and set the router to forward port 5900 to the internal IP address on your dad's computer. Set a password for VNC on his computer and configure it to run as a service (or have him start the server manually), connect to his external IP address from the VNC client on your computer, and you're done.


If you do turn the Norton Firewall on his computer back on, make sure you set the firewall up to allow port 5900 (or just the whole VNC client) in and out.
 
Also, very very common thing is to forget the windows firewall. Its on by default since SP1 I belive. Try turning that off.
 
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