Novice Needs Help

[John Aldrich]

Have you set a password? What happens if you hover the mouse over the icon
in the system tray on the server? If it's listening, it should briefly say
something like "VNC Server (Service):xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" if you have it loaded
as a service. By default, if you didn't uncheck anything, it should be
installed as a service. Also, what operating systems are you running? If you
have XP SP2, you probably have a firewall blocking VNC, and should either
temporarily disable the firewall or create an exception for the VNC Server
(typically c:\program files\RealVNC\VNC4\winvnc4.exe)

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]On
Behalf Of Julian Cram
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:47 AM
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Novice Needs Help


Hello,

I am a total novice here, both in terms of VNC and in terms of networking.
In
understand the (very) basics needed to set up networks but that is about it.

Anyway, I cannot get VNC to work. I have the VNC server running on my
desktop,
and am trying to connect to it using VNC viewer on my laptop, but am getting
the message "unable to connect to host: connection refused (10061)".

I have not done anything to any to the settings on VNC sever, so they are
the
default when installed, and having browsed the list archive, I just get lost
in all the technical jargen.

Can anyone suggest any possible sollutions?

Thanks

Julian
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