On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of > > > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion > > > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? > > > > Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate. > > > > -- Rex > > > > Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the > Apple system. Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up. Typically in > vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number > to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be > port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc. > > The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a > firewall blocking vnc. > > Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are > invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem. > Thsi is a good suggestion and I will have to ofllow though on that. But I would accept any known other vnclient name in the meantime. There is a OS X vnc client called Chicken of VNC that does work. But I will collect the error information and post it. -- ======================================================================= If Karl, instead of writing a lot about Capital, had made a lot of Capital, it would have been much better. -- Karl Marx's Mother ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
