[ale] Q: Enabling VNC into Fedora-C3

Brian J. Dowd bdowd at dentfirst.com
Thu Mar 31 18:25:00 EST 2005


Thanks for the correction!
-B

>On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:07 -0500, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
>  
>
>>Make sure that ports 6000-6010 are open in both firewalls. They 
>>sequentially represent the virtual terminals.
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think that's correct. 6000 is the X port. VNC ports are 5800+
>and 5900+ . 5800 is for the java/http server built into the vncserver,
>and 5900+ is the vncviewer direct port. The "+" is used here to indicate
>that the effective screen number is summed with the base port number.
>For a windows  (M$) system that can't understand multiple users and
>multiple screens, that  number is a "0" (like the IQ of a ....
>nevermind :) while *nix systems can use multple instances thus having
>multiple ports open at once.
>  
>
>>-B
>>(I like the SSH tunneling better)
>>
>>    
>>
>>>ALErs -
>>>
>>>I am used to simply running 'vncserver' to start 'Xvnc' on my RH-7.x
>>>systems, then just connecting from an external viewer.
>>>
>>>Connections are being refused (actually, 'Host is unreachable') when I try
>>>to connect via VNC to a newly installed Fedora-C3 setup. I can connect by
>>>SSH or 'ping' the box, but not open a vncviewer against it. I set the
>>>'Remote desktop' options to allow 'vncviewer' access, but that didn't help.
>>>
>>>What's the magic here? Do I have to tweak the firewall?
>>>
>>>TIA.
>>>
>>>- Mills
>>>
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>>>



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