Re: setting server rfb port to non-default - on the vncviewer

[William Hooper]

John Lumby wrote:
 If the VNC server is using a non-standard port number to accept
 connections then this is specified by adding two colons to the server's
 address or name, followed by the port number


 Yes! thank-you.  I did not see that documented but now I do.   Thanks
  for pointing that out.Oh well. And for anyone who tries this, since
 the documentation does not state the order of the subfields when you need
 to specify all three subfields - server-IP-address , server-port ,
 server-display-number I discovered by trial and error that it is the above
 order, with the three (in total) colons like so :
 server-IP-address::server-port:server-display-number

You don't need all three.  You need either port or display number:

server::5905 or server:5

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William Hooper
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Invisible firewall?

[browncoatz]

 I emailed before about a problem of me not being able to connect to my home 
vnc server. I wanted to state that Both my laptop and home computer has windows 
xp, but the home computer that the server is on only has service pack1, where 
my laptop that I'm trying to use viewer with(behind work firewall ports 
20,21,22 open) cannot connect to it. John gave me a link, and told me to use a 
ssh tunnel, but that didn't work either. Then when bored and stressed out, I 
tried it with the accept connections on ports section on the connection tabs 
on the server was on port 22, and I entered, ip.add.ress::22 , on my viewer and 
the password authentication came up. Excited, I put in the correct password, 
and a black window that was suppose to look like my desktop closed and a error 
message saying Connection reset by peer came up. I tried it multiple times 
after that, and it didn't work. After that day I haven't even gotten to that 
point yet. The only other explanation is that there's a f!
irewall that I can't see is running. But Service pack 1 doesn't come with a 
firewall like Service Pack 2 does. Has anyone ever head of this?
 
 

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