How to see screen :0 of Linux RedHat 8 from Windows 3.11 and Windows 98

[William Hooper]

Agron Selimaj said:
[snip]
> No firewall for now.
> VNC client (TightVNC viewer) says "Connection Closed" when I put in the
> right password. With a wrong password it says "VNC Authentication failed".

Have you tried a RealVNC client?
 
> *XFree86 log says*:
> (II) LoadModule: "vnc"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/vnc.so
> (II) Module vnc: vendor="RealVNC Ltd"
> compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server
> Extension
> ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
> (II) Loading extension VNC
> ...
> (WW) VESA(0): Option "passwordFile" is not used
> ...

This looks normal (unless you cut something out that isn't).  I'll have to play with it and try to remember what you need to do to get VNC to log more info.
 
> *netstat -l says*:
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> tcp        0      0 *:5900                  *:* LISTEN
[snip

Good, the VNC module is loading.

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William Hooper