My present-day problem is as follows:
I'm trying to talk via VNC to my Ubox from my Wbox.
I'm running a Debian Unix kernel on the Ubox, XP on the Windows box.
The TCP/IP connection is fine, it pings out just dandy.
The Ubox is running a vncserver which appears to be listening on port 5901. (I don't know why it's not listening on 5900, can anyone tell me? *I* didn't tell it to listen on 5901, and isn't 5900 the default port?)
So ok. I fire up my RealVNC viewer on the Wbox (which works fine with every other machine I visit, but then, those are all WINDOWS machines!), and I put the IP no. (let's say it's 999.999.999.999) into the "Connection details" box as:
999.999.999.999:5901
A *LONG* time passes (relative to the amount of time it NORMALLY takes to connect or get a "connection refused" response) -- about 20 seconds (normally when I try to connect to just about anything I either get connected or get a refusal within about FIVE seconds or even less) -- after which I get the standard RealVNC mesage "Failed to connect to server" in the little "VNC info" popup.
Note that I don't really see anything in the RealVNC documentation which explicitly gives the syntax for designating a port, and in everything else I connect to, the default port seems to work, so I don't even have to worry about what port I'm connecting to. So I am just kinda guessing that the above is proper syntax for designating port 5901.
Any ideas anyone may have about how I can get connected will be most welcome and appreciated!
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