Not able to connect on Remote Linux m/c from Windows XP m/c

[Dinesh Rege]

Hi John,
thanks for the reply.

Well, the problem is not with the windows firewall.  Tell me, do we
need to set any access rights at the server side (the Linux machine)
for the viewer machine.  And one more thing, how do we specify the
remote machine, means, is it in the form
ipaddress:port, eg., 210.216.56.76:0 or any other way?

Thanks again
Dinesh



On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:21:41 -0500, John Aldrich <JAldrich "at" covista.com> wrote:
> Windows XP SP2, by any chance? Disable the firewall for VNC. Windows XP SP2
> includes a firewall, which by default, pretty much blocks everything in OR
> out. It'll even block Outlook unless you specifically tell it to let Outlook
> through (You'd think Microsoft would be smart enough to pre-configure the
> firewall to allow common Microsoft apps!)
>         John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dinesh Rege [mailto:superpravin2003 "at" gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:35 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Not able to connect on Remote Linux m/c from Windows XP m/c
> 
> Hi
> 
> As the subject indicates, I've been trying to run the viewer on the
> client windows machine.
> But it says simply,
> Failed to connect to the server.
> 
> Regards
> Dinesh
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