Re: VNC - connection refused (111)

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>>>>> "Teo" == Teo Fonrouge <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Teo> On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:35:23 am Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Tim" == Taylor, Tim <ttaylor@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
    >> 
    Tim> If you are sure a firewall isn't running on the server, and
    Tim> you can telnet to that port from the server but nowhere else
    Tim> then I would suggest checking that the VNC server is indeed
    Tim> listening on the EXTERNAL interface.  It sounds like it is
    Tim> listening on the local loopback only.
    >> 
    >> Could you expand on that please?
    >> 
    >> It is configured thus:
    >> 
    >> VNCSERVERS="5:username" VNCSERVERARGS[5]="-geometry 1024x780
    >> -depth 24 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"

    Teo> You need to remove the "-localhost" parameter, as this is
    Teo> telling to the vnc server to accept connections only from the
    Teo> host.

Thank -you.

That works (I also removed -nolisten tcp, i don't know if that was
relevant or not).

    Teo> Or, you can try to do a tunneling, from the client:

    Teo> # ssh -XY yourname@yourvncserver /usr/bin/vncviewer
    Teo> localhost:5

As I understood  it, passing -via localhost was supposed to do that
automatically.

But this looks a good idea anyway, as I can make it into an icon.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

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