Remote Connection

If the remote pc has a dynamically assigned ip address and you do not know that that ip address, you cannot connect to it. BUT--->

If you can go to www.grc.com and follow the "Shields Up" links, and then click on "Test My Shields", then you will have the ip address that the server within your internal network is operating on. Use Winipcfg or ipconfig to find out your internal address. Make sure the firewall passes the ports necessary for communication through the VNC client and you should still be able to get to your server.

You just need to make sure you know:
1) both ip addresses -- the internal ip address that has the VNC host running on it and the external ip address that your router/firewall is using (which should be obtainable via www.grc.com as above).
2) the firewall/router is set to pass two-way communications to the internal ip address through the ports that your VNC client/server requires.

I use PC Anywhere and have an NT4 server and LinkSys broadband router setup at home... and several computers online... (but a win2k Pro waiting to host). It works fine.