My Watcher software is running at home with a personal firewall, how can I connect to it using RemoteView from outside?
Watcher is listening at port 5003, if you are using TCP/IP connection. Make sure your firewall allows outside connection request at port 5003. You should be able to find that configuration in most of the well functional firewall softwares. Please make sure your Watcher PC can be “seen” by the remote PC. Try to “ping” Watcher PC’s IP address on the remote PC to verify. (in the remote PC’s DOS-Prompt, type “ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is Watcher PC’s IP address). You might encounter some connectin problem if you run a LAN network at your home. Your PC might have a local IP in LAN, instead of a global IP address. If both Watcher PC and Remote PC are in the same LAN, that’s no problem. However, if one of them is outside the LAN, you have to make sure Watcher PC has an identifiable and “seeable” IP address. (The analogy is that “mum” uniquely identify a person in a single home, but not outside a home) You can consult your network admin or ISP support personnel if you have an
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