[plug] Remote desktop question

Tomasz Grzegurzko tomasz89 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 15:53:54 WST 2008


On Feb 14, 2008 3:51 PM, Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings to the oh so quite list.
>
> I actually have a question, I have a RedHat, well Fedora actually.
> I have a box I set up and then went in and set "System>Internet and
> Network>Remote Desktop" with the appropriate options to allow me to remote
> desktop to it. I even tested it and all was well. When I now come to connect
> across the network to it via vncviewer I find it does not work.
>  I can ssh to the box and tcpdump confirms that my packets get to it and it
> answers:
>
> [rsupport at syslog sysconfig]# tcpdump port 5900
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
>  14:48:19.642330 IP 192.168.80.80.4558 > syslog.5900: S
> 176584143:176584143(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
> 14:48:19.654136 IP syslog.5900 > 192.168.80.80.4558: R 0:0(0) ack 176584144
> win 0
> 14:48:20.061598 IP 192.168.80.80.4558 > syslog.5900: S
> 176584143:176584143(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
>  14:48:20.061621 IP syslog.5900 > 192.168.80.80.4558: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0
> 14:48:20.563783 IP 192.168.80.80.4558 > syslog.5900: S
> 176584143:176584143(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
> 14:48:20.563805 IP syslog.5900 > 192.168.80.80.4558: R 0:0(0) ack 1 win 0
>
> But VNC just says "Failed to connect"
> I have been looking for the config files for remote desktop (I have checked
> other systems that are working and it does NOT use the vncserver config
> file), any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Chris G
>
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What is your vncviewer syntax?

Tomasz



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