server closed connection unexpectedly

[Richard Marnau]

James Weatherall wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Try changing xqtpx.homelinux.net:5900 to localhost:5900 and see if that
> helps.

Thank you very much for that great advice, it works now ;) !!!!
But actually i don't know why! Could you might explain it ?

ssh just forward 5901 to 5900 local but how works the connection to 
port5900 on the remote computer ?

realy wierd for me :)

Thanks very much again !!!!!!


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> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Marnau [mailto:protonar "at" gmx.de] 
>>Sent: 29 February 2004 18:18
>>To: James Weatherall
>>Subject: Re: server closed connection unexpectedly
>>
>>
>>Hi James
>>
>>
>>>>It works perfectly to connect to the server without shh...
>>>>With ssh tunneling the error occurs: "server closed connection 
>>>>unexpectedly" when trying to connect to the localhost (localhost:1)
>>>
>>>
>>>This means that VNC Viewer is connecting to the SSH client 
>>
>>but that the SSH
>>
>>>server cannot make the corresponding connection out to the 
>>
>>VNC Server, at
>>
>>>the other end.  Check the port numbers and the hostname you 
>>
>>have specified
>>
>>>that the connection be forwarded to.  In particular, if VNC 
>>
>>Viewer is set to
>>
>>>only allow local loopback connections, you *must* specify 
>>
>>"localhost" as the
>>
>>>remote hostname to forward the connection to.
>>>
>>>Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Thanks you very much for your answer,
>>
>>acutally i'm not quite sure what i done wrong.
>>Here a screenshot from the configuration:
>>
> 
www.binbesoffen.de/putty.jpg
> 
> If ssh esablished a connection to xqtpx.homelinux.net he will open a 
> port 5901 local witch is forwardet to xqtpx.homelinux.net:5900..
> 
> In the vnc viewer it self, i try to connecto to localhost:1 (for port 5901 )
> 
> This configuration its self works within the lan itself but not now 
> since i try to access from the internet :(
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot again James!!!