Perry:
Can you double-check the firewall rules for the XP machine? Are you running
any sort of antivirus? There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that some
antivirus products will block VNC.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 5:03 PM
To: John Aldrich
Cc: James Weatherall; vnc-list@realvnc.com
Subject: RE: viewer not working in XP
First, is it typical that one doesn't see their own posts in the
mailing list?
Anyway, I re-installed the RealVNC viewer today and the same thing is
happening. Perhaps I'm missing some security setting on the linux
side but I've searched around on the internet and poked through my
firewall settings on the linux side. I am allowing VNC access
(according to YAST which is the SUSE config tool) - is there some
other way to tell what is going wrong.
like i said yesterday i was able to telnet and get the RFB prompt -
and I am able to use the http interface but I can't use the "normal"
interface.
thanks
perry
John Aldrich wrote:
> Perry:
> Can you try to telnet to 192.168.1.101 on port 5901? You should get the
> "RFB" prompt. If you get that, that means there's something wierd going on
> with the viewer. What you'll need to do is click on "start" then "run"
then
> type "telnet" in the run prompt and click on "go." Then in the window that
> pops up type "open 192.168.1.101 5901" and hit the "enter" key. No
> punctuation goes between the IP address and the port number, just a space.
> If you type that and don't get the RFB prompt, then there's something
> blocking that.
>
> Just out of curiousity, do you have anything in your 'hosts.deny' or
> 'hosts.allow' file on the linux box?
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:03 PM
> To: James Weatherall
> Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: viewer not working in XP
>
>
> I open the VNC viewer in Windows XP and it prompts me for the IP
> address and connection number - I input 192.168.1.101:1 (the local
> addr of the linux machine running the vncserver) and then the linux
> machine says it has rcvd a conenction from 192.168.1.100 but nothing
> shows up on the XP side, it never prompts me for the password or
> anything further.
>
> This is the same way I was always doing it before. I can ping the
> 1.100 machine from 1.101 and vice versa. And I can use VNC through
> the http interface (but it's a little slow and jittery for my needs).
> I can also connect to the linux vncserver from a separate linux
> machine.
>
>
>
> James Weatherall wrote:
>
> > Perry,
> >
> > Can you be more specific as to what you mean by "it doesn't work"?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of perry
> > > Sent: 05 July 2005 19:12
> > > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> > > Subject: viewer not working in XP
> > >
> > > I have vncserver running on a linux machine and I want to view that
> > > from my new windows XP machine (service pack 2) - it worked fine on my
> > > old windows xp machine (service pack 1) but it's not working.
> > >
> > > What does work: viewing on another linux machine on the network. and
> > > i can also view using a browser from the XP machine. I've tried
> > > disabling the firewall on the XP machine - though i don't see why that
> > > would matter - and it still doesn't work. any ideas? thanks.
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