VNC server to another linux machine?

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 10 02:41:51 UTC 2004



Andrew Konosky wrote:

> I have my FC2 machine able to connect to a VNC server running on my 
> brothers windows 98 machine. I just installed Suse 9.1 on the windows 98 
> machine, and I am trying to set up a VNC server on it. The hostname 
> under both OS's is 'carl.' The vnc server starts and runs, but I can't 
> connect to it from my machine. When he is using windows, the command is 
> vnc:/carl:0, but that doesn't work when the other machine is running 
> Suse. The vnc server starts on display 5, but vnc:/carl:5 doesn't work, 
> nor does using the default port# of 5900. What am I missing here?

Firewall?

Regards,
Ed.





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