VNC: Unknown Authentication Scheme

[Felts, Roger]

I can FTP external servers with no problem -- would that not suggest that
this is not at issue?

-----Original Message-----
From: Hood Gardner
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:35 AM

Port 21 is normally used for the FTP control channel.  Is there an FTP
server somewhere in the mix confusing the issue?

At 08:15 AM 11/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
>The archives don't seem to discuss this, so:
>
>I have a VNC 3.3.3r2 server at home which I am trying to contact from here
>at work (also 3.3.3r2.)  The server is using port 21 so as to get through
>the firewall on this end.  This works fine from the network at home, but at
>work connecting homebox.domain:-5879 returns the error "Unknown
>Authentication Scheme."  Telnetting to it produces the initial response
"RFB
>003.003" and carriage returns are responded to with "500 command not
>understood"
>
>In this configuration, are there ports other than 21 which are in use?  Has
>anyone seen this and gotten it resolved?

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