vncserver authentication failed, too many tries

[James Weatherall]

> We are running a vncserver on HP-Unix. When we try to run the 
> vncviewer on Windows, it asks for the hostname, and then the 
> passwd. But once we enter the password it says 
> 'authentication failed, too many tries'. I tried deleting the 
> .vnc directory and running the vncserver again but still it 
> didn't help. Let me know what should I do so that I can do 
> away with the Authentication problem.

Authentication failed, too many tries means that too many connection
attempts have been made that have failed due to a suitable password not
being supplied by the client.  You should simply be able to wait for 10
seconds and the server will allow you to try again.

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.