VNC - connection refused (111)

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Tim" == Taylor, Tim <ttaylor at mitre.org> writes:

    Tim> If you are sure a firewall isn't running on the server, and
    Tim> you can telnet to that port from the server but nowhere else
    Tim> then I would suggest checking that the VNC server is indeed
    Tim> listening on the EXTERNAL interface.  It sounds like it is
    Tim> listening on the local loopback only.

Could you expand on that please?

It is configured thus:

VNCSERVERS="5:username"
VNCSERVERARGS[5]="-geometry 1024x780 -depth 24 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"

The connection attempt is made as:

hostname:5 -via localhost

Is this what you mean by not listening on the EXTERNAL interface?
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire