Connection Refused (10061)

[B. Scott Smith]

I would try "lsof -i :5901" to find out exactly who is already listening 
on that local port...

John Aldrich wrote:

>Nope... I think I figured it out. I had a similar problem awhile back. I'm
>going to have to log into the box locally and kill all SSHD sessions, I
>think.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: B. Scott Smith [mailto:scott "at" smithdomain.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 6:14 PM
>To: John Aldrich
>Cc: RealVNC List (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: Connection Refused (10061)
>
>
>Do you already have a VNC server for display :1 running on the local box?
>
>John Aldrich wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I'm attempting to VNC into my linux box at home via an SSH tunnel. I've
>>gotten the tunnel part working, and if I change the local port, I can
>>reconnect, however, trying to connect to 5901 locally fails. Any idea why?
>>Server is Fedora Core 3, client is "Standard" VNC 4.1.1. I've upgraded the
>>Fedora box to the latest release using the RPM from the RealVNC website.
>>    
>>
>I'm
>  
>
>>using PuTTY to create the tunnel.
>>	Thanks
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