----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Pearson" <pearj@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 7:26 PM Subject: Access VNC Server via DNAT > Hey, > > I have a vnc server that is on my local lan at home that I'd like to be able > to access from the internet via my internet gateway linux box. I've read a > little bit about it but I can't get my gateway to forward to ports, I've > tried this: > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 5904 -s 192.168.0.2 -j > DNAT --to 192.168.0.25:5904 If your internet interface is eth0, you need to do /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 5904 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.25 Please note the above rule will allow you to connect only from internet. > But it says it can't connect to the server. At the moment I'm just trying to > get the port forwarding to work on my local lan, but it doesn't seem to be > working. I've read of people haveing this working using a somewhat similar > iptables command, is there some module I'm supposed to load to make this > happen? My server is running RedHat 8 with iptables v1.2.6a > > Does anyone know why this isn't working? > > Thanks > > Joel > Venkatesh K
