Enabling VNC

[Jeremy Conlin]

On 2004-10-19 03:44:01 -0400, Volker Kindermann <ml at ps102.de> said:
> 
> first, you should make sure that the vncserver on the linux machine is 
> running. To do this use this command:
> 
> netstat -na|grep LISTEN
This is the results of running that commmand
[jlconlin at localhost .vnc]$ netstat -na | grep LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1025            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:1026          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5801            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5901            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6001            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::6001                 :::*                    LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     3417   /dev/gpmctl
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     3479   /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     3888   /tmp/.gdm_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     3912   /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4028   
/tmp/ssh-eobD2338/agent.2338
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4043   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-956-0-2a268318b16d
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4052   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-922-0-74569dd5a6649
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4192   /tmp/.ICE-unix/2338
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4200   
/tmp/keyring-orTApr/socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4210   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-95b-0-7140900b620e0
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4266   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-95d-0-2b65bcbedbb49
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4298   /tmp/.fam_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4279   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-95f-0-1e5c4faf5e9b1
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4693   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9c7-0-68368a5aed281
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4704   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9c3-0-68368a592b19
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4731   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9c5-0-16385c96c6c5a
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4768   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9c9-0-4efcedb1e988
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4801   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9d1-0-69acc65810179
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4844   /tmp/mapping-jlconlin
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4954   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9ed-0-34891015dd891
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     4982   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9ef-0-50d7b15346f78
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5008   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9f1-0-50d7b153ceacc
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5034   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9cd-0-7eeabc41c2cd4
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     5052   
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-9f8-0-37415df8abc9
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     28905  
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-2506-0-4661f93a91a9
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     3537   
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     28939  
/tmp/orbit-jlconlin/linc-2508-0-236066ff93afe
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     29088  /tmp/.X11-unix/X1


I don't understand all of this but it looks like it is listening on 
port 5901 from the 4th line.
What next?

Thanks,
Jeremy