Sorry guys, kept drilling down to discover that the iptables rules within the device were preventing that which is pretty obvious from the message. Now all I gotta figure out is the rule to allow just selected services. Cheers TechRanj --- techranj-subs@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > got a bit of an issue. Have vncserver (V4.0-5) running on Fedora Core 2. The box running Fedora > is > on a public IP with no firewall or NAT in front of it. Just an ADSL modem/Router with > Firewall/NAT > turned off. "vncserver" starts up without errors except a few messages about security policy > file > and font paths and stuff. When I use a local Remote Desktop Client from KDE to VNC into it, it > works without problems. But when I use WinXP (TightVNC Viewer), I get "Failed to Connect to > Server" error on the client side. The WinXP PC is on the same network behind the same Router, > same > LAN etc. and is also on a Public IP. > > On doing a Packet capture using ethereal, I see the WinXP PC sending a TCP message to the > vncserver machine and the vncserver machine responds with an ICMP message of "Destination > unreachable (Host administratively prohibited) i.e. Type 3, Code 10. I have no idea what's going > on. > > Any ideas? > TechRanj > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
