VNC and Dyndns

[Mark Warren]

HI,

 

I am totally new to this so please be gentle !!

 

I am just doing some testing on behalf of a friend of mine who wants to be
able to control his work PC from home.  I am doing OK up to now.

 

My question/problem is this:

 

I have two PCs at home I am doing my testing on.  I have setup VNC
Enterprise (trial version) on both machines.  I have also set up a dynamic
DNS via www.dyndns.org.

 

On my laptop I have set up the VNC server and when I hover over the icon on
the toolbar it says 192.168.0.3 which is obviously my internal IP address.
I can connect from my desktop using the VNC viewer and entering 192.168.0.3.
However, if I type in my dynamic DNS e.g. billsmith "at" dyndns.info I cannot
connect to my laptop.  Is this because both of the PCs are behind my router
a Netgear DG834G Version 3.  I am sure I have opened the necessary ports
5900 and 5800 (also 5950  and 5850 which is how I set up the server on my
laptop).

 

Any advise would be really appreciated.  This seems an amazing product,
especially for the cost, and means I don't have to upgrade my friends PCs to
XP Pro J

 

Regards

 

Mark