On Saturday 09 August 2008 11:32:44 pm Colin Paul Adams wrote: > >>>>> "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. And it must work, as long as you have the port 22 open and the sshd service running on the vncserver side: # vncviewer -via yourname@yourvncserver localhost:5 best regards Teo Fonrouge -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
