On Sunday 15 May 2005 02:50, Robert Segelbaum wrote: > I'm kind of a newbie -- I spoke unix years and years ago when Bell Labs > first developed it, then got into other stuff and forgot most of it. So > let's say I'm a "neobie". > > 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
Uppps... Try 999.999.999.999:1 or 999.999.999.999::5901 Both mean the same... Jerry > > 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! > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
