ARD sees remote computer but won't connect

I previously used ARD 2 to connect to my Mom's Mac and all worked well. She recently had to replace her router due to a bad power supply and during that time frame I also upgraded to ARD 3. Ever since I have been unable to gain access to her computer. (I did install the ARD 3 client for her.)
If I'm at her house and connected to her router with my laptop I can gain access, but if I'm at home I cannot.

I checked the port forwarding settings on her router last night and both ports 5900 and 3283 were set to "both". In addition I read where ARD uses port 5988 so I turned forwarding on there as well. When I got home I was still unable to get to her computer.

I'd used DynDNS since she's on DSL and doesn't have a static IP. When I try to connect using the DynDNS hostname it shows up in the ARD scanner, but the IP address is not what her computer is using at the time. I went to WhatIsMyIP.com to get the actual IP address she was using and I can enter that and her computer name will show up in the ARD list so it is seeing her computer is out there, but when I try to connect to it the connection fails. I tried removing her from ARD and re-adding and that didn't help either. I also have ARD on my work computer and am unable to access her computer from there so I don't think the problem is on my home network.

Any ideas on what I might be missing here? I don't know whether this had to do with the router change or the ARD update. I only get in to her house periodically and would like to get this resolved so I can help her when she has computer problems. Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Sep 14, 2007 6:11 AM

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Sep 27, 2007 7:46 AM in response to Beth Ernst

I checked my settings and I never had the Mac Firewall setup. I did turn on the DDNS service in the router today and selected the DynDNS option and entered all my Mom's login info there. I don't recall doing this before on her old router, but at any rate, it seems to be recognizing her DynDNS hostname now when I try to connect. At least for today. 🙂

My next issue to tackle is the lack of access to run reports, copy files or send messages through ARD. I've been searching through the forum and haven't had any luck yet. One suggestion was to open port 22, but that made no difference. I found a couple other ports to try 5988 and 5989. I hope to get them tested later today and will post my findings back here.

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