vnc over wireless router
Help ... I'm trying to run vncviewer on a laptop running Fedora 2 speaking to a redhat 9 server via a 802.11b wireless router .. the server connects to the router via a utp ethernet link .. the laptop via its own internal 802.11b card ..(Truemobile 1400 using ndiswrapper) .. I can ftp and telnet no problems .. I have enables vncserver on the server ... however I keep getting a connect error 111 when I try to use vncviewer to access the server ... any suggestions?/alternatives for remote access to the server X11 desktop? Thanks Stephen
Stephen Pearce wrote:
Help ...
I'm trying to run vncviewer on a laptop running Fedora 2 speaking to a redhat 9 server via a 802.11b wireless router .. the server connects to the router via a utp ethernet link .. the laptop via its own internal 802.11b card ..(Truemobile 1400 using ndiswrapper) .. I can ftp and telnet no problems .. I have enables vncserver on the server ... however I keep getting a connect error 111 when I try to use vncviewer to access the server ... any suggestions?/alternatives for remote access to the server X11 desktop?
error 111 is almost certainly "Connection refused", which suggests either firewalling, that the vncserver isn't running, or it's listening on some other interface. have a look at the output "netstat -atp" that will show you a list of all the tcp connections, and tcp ports that are listening and what process is using them which might help you see if it's listening and/or which interface it is listening on.
Stephen Pearce wrote:
Help ...
I'm trying to run vncviewer on a laptop running Fedora 2 speaking to a redhat 9 server via a 802.11b wireless router .. the server connects to the router via a utp ethernet link .. the laptop via its own internal 802.11b card ..(Truemobile 1400 using ndiswrapper) .. I can ftp and telnet no problems .. I have enables vncserver on the server ... however I keep getting a connect error 111 when I try to use vncviewer to access the server ... any suggestions?/alternatives for remote access to the server X11 desktop?
Try tunneling vnc through SSH :)
* Drew Broadley <drew(a)corrupt.co.nz> [2004-07-08 13:46]:
Try tunneling vnc through SSH :)
Yeah, that's probably the easiest solution -- in fact, the VNC client (TightVNC at least) has a -via option for that, so you don't even have to tunnel explicitly, the client will set up the tunnel to the mentioned machine behind the scenes. It's great. Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
Stephen Pearce wrote:
I'm trying to run vncviewer on a laptop running Fedora 2 speaking to a redhat 9 server via a 802.11b wireless router .. the server connects to the router via a utp ethernet link .. the laptop via its own internal 802.11b card ..(Truemobile 1400 using ndiswrapper) .. I can ftp and telnet no problems .. I have enables vncserver on the server ... however I keep getting a connect error 111 when I try to use vncviewer to access the server ... any suggestions?/alternatives for remote access to the server X11 desktop?
Are you needing to see what's on the server's screen, or simply to run X programs on the server and it display on your laptop? If the later, just do "ssh -X server" and ssh will take care of forwarding the X session for you in a secure way. If it's the former, have you tried using the Java VNC client? VNC Servers usually run an http server on a port 5800 (iirc) that serves a java applet based viewer. Regards, Jon
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