On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Neil Aggarwal <n...@jammconsulting.com> wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I tried following the instructions on this page to set up a VNC > server: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server > > I can telnet to port 5901 from the machine itself: > # telnet 127.0.0.1 5901 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > RFB 003.008 > > But, when I try to connect to it from the outside world, I get a connection > timeout. >
so it listens on the localhost, but is it also listening on the other (eth0,1,2...) interfaces?are there possibly outbound network ACLs from your outside host? is there a firewall rule (I think later you said iptables is off, but there could well be others, speculating about your network topology)? what do you get when you use telnet from $outside to $ip_you_really_intend_to_use 5901? and if that's not an option have you considered tunneling X over ssh and just using that? -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos