Need help with Pcanywhere 10

[mboy]

I am trying to configure PcAnywhere to be able to access my desktop at work from my home PC. @home I have a cable connection with Linksys router. At work, I have a T1 and use assigned I.P.s to all workstations starting at 198.199.2xx.xxx. Of course I know my public IP at work for internet access. How do I set up the remote to look for my work IP addy? Do I use my public IP or just have it scan for the public IP for host connections? I guess I have to or it can not find the actual computers IP as it is not an Internet recognized IP. Can this be done?
Thanx.

 

[neopipil]

It is very likely that your set up at work is using Network Address Translation (NAT) as well as a firewall. If this is the case, you may not be able to configure PcAnywhere at home to connect to your machine.

If NAT is being used, you need to set up port forwarding on your router. Forward the PcAnywhere port to the local network IP your work machine uses. If a firewall is being used, you also need to configure the firewall to allow the PcAnywhere port to pass data.

Hope this helps.

 

[wlee]

You need to forward ports 5631 and 5632 from your WAN IP to your internal machines IP if you are using NAT inside. If you have *REAL* routable IP's on the inside machines, then likely the firewall is blocking you. Ask the network admin to config the firewall/router to allow pass-thru traffic on those ports.

 

[mboy]

I am the Network admin . I configured my firewall to allow those ports already. I have an old cisco 1005 router connected to my DSU and then other end is connected to an OLD whistleware interjet mailserver/firewall. Not sure about forwarding the port thru the router, but I opened the ports in the Interjet. I guess I should connect thru to my external IP addy and see what happens.

 

[Vegito]

if you put like x.x.x.255, it scans the whole subnet.. ie, my RR, i can put a subnet in and comes back with a huge list of people using pcanywhere and netop.. pcanywhere is too slow.. netop is great.. and as mentioned.. the firewall port is require and ur ip is probably natted

btw get a notebook with a port scanner... check ur settings before your happy with it.. or one day.. poof.. some broke in.

 

[mboy]

Got it running no prob and LUV it. Perfect for what I need it to do!