From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Hamill Subject: Re: iptables for port forwarding Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:05:54 +0000 Message-ID: <200411301305.54595.gdh@acentral.co.uk> References: <20041130005154.6978.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041130005154.6978.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Tuesday 30 November 2004 00:51, Nick wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server which I can only connect to via port 80, due to a > firewall. I want to connect to VNC on the server, and connect to it > via a VNC client my laptop. VNC server only wants to run on port 5900. > I'm not running an HTTP server on 80, so no prob there. I want to > forward packets coming into the server on port 80 to the VNC on 5900. Take a step back and work from first principles... can you telnet to port 80 on the server from your laptop? You should see something like this... gdh:~# telnet 1.2.3.4 80 Trying 1.2.3.4... Connected to myhost.mydomain.com Escape character is '^]'. RFB 003.003 If you don't see that 'RFB' message then something else is wrong.. if you do see it, then can I ask how you're telling the VNC client to use port 80? You can't simply tell it to connect to "1.2.3.4:80" because this will try to connect to port 5980... Cheers, Gavin.