local loop-back connections are disabled

Alex Nicolaou anicolao "at" cgl.uwaterloo.ca
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:10:59 +0000


Ulrich Voss wrote:
[details of port forwarding deleted]
> Then when I try to connect VNC via with localhost:2 I get:
> 
> local loop-back connections are disabled

You are setting the right things for the port redirection. You need to
set the registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\AllowLoobackOnly DWORD 0x01 

to allow loopback only connections.

alex

P.S. You may also be interested in other posts on the subject, some of
which I have summarized in another post about firewalls: 

  http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/1999-03/0027.html

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