VNC - connection refused (111)
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 13:54:10 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:42 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Patrick> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 07:48 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >> Hello, I have recently re-installed fedora on a client machine
> >> (Fedora 9 from FC6) and now from that machine VNC connection
> >> does not work any more (it did with FC6 installed).
> >>
> >> Iptables is not running on either machine.
>
> Patrick> Yes it is. It just doesn't show up as a process because
> Patrick> it's part of the kernel. The iptables command is used to
> Patrick> manipulate the tables but doesn't run continuously.
>
> Patrick> Run system-config-firewall and see what it says.
>
> bummer!
> You were right, so I disabled it. And on the other machine too.
I can't remember off the top of my head whether disabling the firewall
leaves everything open or everything closed. In any case, you can check
with 'iptables -L'.
poc
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