VNC: vncviewer no route to host on same lan

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 14:46, Richard Emberson wrote:
> I've got two Fedora bozes (A & B) on the same lan (connected through a 
> netgear switch).
> They can ping each other and ssh bach and forth. There is a firewall 
> between the
> lan and the internet (the firewall is NOT between the two machines).
> 
> On machine A, I've got a vncserver running. On machine A, I can run the 
> command
>  > vncviewer A:1
> successfully; self vnc-ing works.
> 
> On machine B, when I run the command
>  > vncviewer A:1
> I get
> 
> main:   unable to connect to host: No route to host (113)
> 
> what wrong?

Most likely you have iptables running on the machine A and is blocking
port 5901.  Test it by disabling iptables on machine A.  If that works
then open port 5901.

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