How to make VVA work?

I'm trying to set up VVA (that's "vee vee ay," not "WA") on my X1000 to communicate with AmiVNC4 on my SAM460ex, but no luck so far. Clicking on the VVA icon gets me a vva Error alert, "Could not connect to VNC-server." Could it be that I need to change something in the VVA settings? Below is what I have now, with HOST set to my wired router's address but I'm not at all sure that's what it should be. It came with "HOST=pc" but trying silly things like "Amiga" or "OS4" bring up "Couldn't get IP-address for you host name." Default PORT was 5900, but I set it to 5902 in AmiVNC4 on the SAM.

HOST=198.[etc.]
PORT=5902
;SCREENMODE=1342902272
;SHARED
;VIEWONLY
RAW
COPYRECT
HEXTILE
RRE
CORRE
;SHAREDPENS
PIP
;RTGONLY
;WINDOW
;16BITS
;32BITS
;NOBORDER
;BACKDROP

I think that in HOST you must put the IP address of your
SAM

What is VVA?

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Actually, that's what I was trying to do with that "198.[etc]," where "[etc]" was the rest of the address I thought might be my SAM.

But to tell the truth, I think that might be my router's address, and thus in a sense the IP address of both computers. How do I find out for sure my SAM's IP address?

on your SAM type the command "shownetstatus"

Btw, I was never able to make two amigas communicate with each-other

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I was with SAMBA..

Me too, with samba, ftp and others protocols,
for the OP question, it's simple if your SAM has
fixed IP address, to do that yoy have two ways,
one is set the IP on your SAM, the second it's
give a fixed IP to the SAM from the router based
upon MAC address, this way on your VVA configuration
the IP it's always the same

I was about to ask the same question.

http://dspach.free.fr/amiga/vva/

Thanks ddni.
I wonder why people use this while a VNCviewer/Amivnc couple already works.
The information on how to do it is here in french:
http://www.amiga-ng.org/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=34

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OK, that gives me Local host, Default gateway, and Domain name servers, each some of that "192.168...." stuff one always sees. I guess I'll try them one at a time.

Meanwhile, I use Statcounter for web hits on my web page. The cookie I set up to block counting my visits doesn't always work, and I have to set up blockage of what Statcounter claims is my IP address, usually something like 72.235.... How does that fit in?

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If you can run X1000 from a PC, it sure seems like one should be able to run a SAM640 from an X1000!

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Would you be able to do it again? Maybe that's what I should be looking into.

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VVA (or TightVNC) will allow you to take control of a remote host running a VNC server. At most you will be able to share the clipboard (and only if it is plain text).
That's completely different to what SAMBA would allow to do: SAMBA will allow you to share some partitions and/or drawers will other computers. This enables you to copy/paste files from/to a remote computer to/from your Amiga.

That's two completely different kind of things. With VNC you take control of a remote host (i.e. with local keyboard and mouse you are controlling it and have a visual feedback as if you were in front of it). On the other hand SAMBA will allow you to copy/paste files.

Note that there are two alternatives:
- RDesktop if you are only planning to take control of Windows machines you might want to try it as it will be more responsive.
- Smbfs if you don't plan to share your Amiga's partitions but rather only connect onto already existing shares then it will be easier and faster to install Smbfs instead of a full featured Samba server.

The IP address of your SAM it's the first one i.e. Local host address,
take note that if you use DHCP this address may change even
if you doesn't switch off/on or reboot your SAM, so once you
started the connection between your Amigas the connection
can broke anytime

OK, it's starting to look like I've been wasting my time on a pipe dream.

PageStream 5.0.5.8 Pro works nicely on my SAM460ex, but I haven't been able to get it to work at all on my X1000. I was hoping I would be able to get at the SAM version from the X1000 so I wouldn't have to keep switching computers...