VNC PC to MAC

[mikeg8866]

hi im mike
i have been using tight VNC for some time and i have an issue now. Me and a friend have a few classes together at KSU and we use the VNC on his Mac book pro with snow leopard and i use tight VNC and have a Toshiba satellite with windows7. also we both use pavlovmedia for our wireless he just lives down one floor. but today when he needed me to walk him through a power point i couldn't access his mac from my pc i was just wondering what could be the problem? we've done this many time before but today it wont let me view the mac. any help would be amazing

 

[robin_bga]

Hi,
What error do you get...?

 

[DelJo63]

If you expect to see and operate the Mac from the PC, then that is difficult.

The inverse (see and operate PC from a Mac) has some tools like
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client

The Mac stuff

However, IMO, as you only need to see a common presentation

create a web server
add the *.PPT or *.PPS files
allow port 80 in both firewalls
in both routers, add a port forward to your PC (his Mac)
and use IP addresses in your browser instead of domain.names.com/​

If you're in a dorm, you likely do not have access to the routers and this falls flat, sorry.

You could EMAIL the *.PPS and step thru it page at a time and discuss ...

 

[mikeg8866]

Hi,
What error do you get...?[/QU

........
it says "failed to connect to server"

 

[DelJo63]

Acording to the documentation, tight VNC uses ports 5800+5900 with TCP,
so

• the firewalls on both ends need to ALLOW these ports
• and the routers need to port forward to the LAN address for the specific systems

and port forwarding needs to target a system with a static or dhcp reserved ip-address.