[ale] Q: Enabling VNC into Fedora-C3

Joe Sechman joe.sechman at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 14:56:32 EST 2005


You could just forward your vnc connection through an SSH tunnel and
avoid the whole firewall mess....here's a quick howto:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:37:15 -0500, Mills, John M. <Mills.J at ems-t.com> wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I am used to simply running 'vncserver' to start 'Xvnc' on my RH-7.x
> systems, then just connecting from an external viewer.
> 
> Connections are being refused (actually, 'Host is unreachable') when I try
> to connect via VNC to a newly installed Fedora-C3 setup. I can connect by
> SSH or 'ping' the box, but not open a vncviewer against it. I set the
> 'Remote desktop' options to allow 'vncviewer' access, but that didn't help.
> 
> What's the magic here? Do I have to tweak the firewall?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
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