Linksys to Linksys and connecting to computers

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I have a linksys router at home and one at my business, both using
cable technology. My pc at home is xp sp1. My pc at work is xp sp1 and
a server w2k3 sp1. I setup port forwarding on the work linksys for
ports 5631 to 5632 using the servers address. I can connect to the
server from my home using pcanywhere at the address of the server as
the host. 192.168.1.x. However the pc at work i need to get to as well
and when i type in that pcs static address of 192.168.1.x i am unable
to get to it. The desktop pcanywhere is sitting at a host waiting
status as well. What am i doing wrong here ?
 
Ok but when i am at home and need to pcanywhere to that second pc, what
IP for the host do i need to put in there, thats the side of things i
dont understand

Jeremy
 
You use the public IP of any firewall/router the PC is behind. If you have
port forwarding setup correctly then the request would be forwarded to
either PC1 or PC 2 depending on the ports you select. I don't personally use
PCAnywhere (it costs too much $$$$) sot that is the best I can say.

This is really outside the scope of this forum. Perhaps you might post to
any Symantec PCAnywhere forums, if they exist...

Good luck...

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It is not working, i changed the port to 5000 on both my home side that
i use to connect to it, and their side client side and the linksys port
forwarding side as well.

Windows firewall is disabled on both devices during this connection
time.

i can get to my server just fine using the standard port 5631 and 5632.
It is just this pc that isnt working.

any other ideas ?

thanks for your help -
 
hey thanks for the help i figured it out - i couldnt use 5000 cause on
xp clients it isnt listening, so i had to use one that was, after i did
a netstat -a i was able to choose a port and go with it just fine.

happy friday -
 
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