Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:55:56 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: VB <swive@getnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnc lameness Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204270954010.3014-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020426204439.B713@sunny.localdomain>
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, VB wrote: > Hi, > > On a 3 computer network (1 FBSD and 2 W2K) VNC works fine to W2K from > W2K both ways on both machines, but I cannot access FBSD via VNC from > W2K, nor can I access W2K from FBSD. > > I am ashamed because it should be rather simple. > > I am cvsuped to 4.4 Release, I started vncserver and ps says its > running. Also, vncviewer brings up the diaglogue in X just as it > should, but typing in a valid address does not work and no error > messages are returned. From W2K viewer, the error message returned is > "cannot connect to server." > > IPFW shows that no packets are being blocked when I try to connect > from W2K, so it's not the firewall. > > Anyone have an idea have any helpful thoughts? VNC works differently on windows to unix. On Windows, you're connecting to screen 0 (which is the main display) - on unix, you connect to screen 1 (or higher), which runs a new X server and session. Use netstat or sockstat to find out what port your vncserver is listening on - is this the same as the w2k machine is trying to connect to? It doesn't sound like it. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk stty intr ^m To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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