Win VNC client not connecting to FC2 VNC server

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at weiss.name
Fri May 21 20:11:42 UTC 2004


From: "Frank Rehwinkel" <redback_frank at yahoo.com>
> Found that if I disable the firewall completely, via
>
>   system-config-securitylevel
>
> the vncviewer from the WinXP box works.  Can someone
> point me to a description of the firewall features
> in FC2 (or at least for FC1) so I can see what needs
> to be done to keep open the vnc tcp ports (5900+)
> while
> having the firewall otherwise enabled?

You're better off leaving the firewall enabled and using PuTTY to tunnel
your VNC connection over ssh.

http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/putty-tunnel.html

Ben





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