Dean, "Connection Refused" means that the test page received a response from your computer indicating that no program was accepting connections on the RFB port (5900). This can mean that it's actually connecting to the wrong computer, or that the VNC Server is not in fact running on the target computer. The latest VNC Enterprise and Personal Edition servers have a handy Status dialog giving details of the state the VNC Server thinks it is in. If you're using VNC Free Edition then you might check that the system is listening on port 5900 using "netstat -an".
Regards, -- Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > -----Original Message----- > From: vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com] On > Behalf Of Dean Buck > Sent: 26 March 2009 04:00 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Waiting for server to send version string... failed: (111, > 'Connection refused') > > G'day everyone, > > I am having the error "Waiting for server to send version string... > failed: > (111, 'Connection refused')" when I use the VNC SERVER TEST PAGE. > > VNC server is setup and running on a vista home x64 machine. I am > behind a > dlink dl-624s router. The ports 5500, 5800 and 5900 are forwarded to > my > computer. I have peer guardian, avast, and spybot running. I have > disabled/closed all of these and still have the problem. I do not have > windows firewall running. > > Anyone have suggestions as to why I can't see the VNC server running? > Thankyou in advance. > _______________________________________________ > 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