UltraVNC

Well kind of embarassing, freesshd has a little button saying "allow port forwarding" tick this and it works.

Thanks for your help though

I just found something:

there are basically two (different) setups people recommend:

Setup1:
Tunnel in Putty destination ip: localhost
server in VNCViewer: localhost:5999 (when you redirected 5999 to 5900)
proxy in VNCViewer: no entry

Setup1:
Tunnel in Putty destination ip: ip of remote pc where ...

In the win 7 firewall, if you allow a program as an exception it means allow it to open and listen on any port it likes, so I think we can rule out a firewall fault.

Telnet answers:
RFB 003.008

Loppback connection is allowed and loopback only disabled.
There's definitely no other vncviewer instance running, it happens also when I start vncviewer for the very first time after windows startup. Checked it though and there wasn't another instance running.
I'm not using a repeater only ssh ...

Updated last night to 1.0.9.5 but still same error message

Any other ideas?

What does actually ID in "listening on this ID" mean??

Hi there,

I'm trying to connect to my home pc (windows 7 64bit) from my office (with proxy, win xp).
I basically followed the tutorial of Cameron W. with small changes found here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/513251

I set up freesshd (instead of openSSH) and UVNC 1.0.8.2 64bit and ...