Connection Refused - 10061 - Can anyone provide additional help?

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Thompson" <tgt624824 "at" yahoo.com>
To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:10 PM
Subject: Connection Refused - 10061 - Can anyone provide additional help?


> Hello All -
>
> I apologize in advance for bothering everyone if this
> is an easy fix.  I've spent the last two days
> searching the mail archives, and unfortunately, can
> still no get the free RealVNC 4.1.1 version to work.
> My setup consists of:
>
> Desktop to act as server, Windows XP Home
> Laptop to act as viewer, Windows XP Pro
>
> I have done the following:
> Opened up port 5900 on both machines
> Forwarded port 5900 to the desktop/server
> Turned off XP Firewall
>
> -I can ping the server, and get replies without issue
> -I canNOT telnet to the server
>
> I have tried different ports, etc., with no luck.  Can
> anyone offer any advice?

A)
On the server, you have to enable the service.
Usually it's done during install if you just agree to it, or else you can do 
it manually from the start menu>programs>*vnc>..., or you can do it from 
control-panel>administrative tools>services>... and either start it 
manually, and/or also set it to start automatically at boot.

When you think you should have the service running on the server, do this to 
see if it really is:
1) in a command prompt window (start>run>cmd), type:
netstat -an |more

one of the lines should say:
 TCP    0.0.0.0:5900           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

do not try to test the connection by using vncviewer to connect to localhost 
or 127.0.0.1, it may be difficult to close the viewer or use your pc for 
anything once you do that. :)

B)
on the client, use vncviewer and put in the public IP of the servers router 
just by itself, don't worry about the :displaynumber or :tcpport
don't include a : at all in this case.

If you want to test basic connectivity with telnet, XP home doesn't have a 
telnet server you can enable on the server.
you can do "telnet address 5900" from the client but all you should see is 
"RFB 003.003" (or some other number, this was tightvnc-1.2.9 server)
If that works, hit enter a bunch of times and the telnet will close, then 
try vncviewer to the same IP and like I said, in this case don't use any 
":nnn" in the vncviewer connect dialog, just put the ip itself.

You shouldn't need to do much special on the client side. You don't need to 
port-forward port 5900 from the clients routers public ip in to the clients 
lan ip for instance. You just need to not be going out of your way to block 
it. Disabling windows firewall and any other personal firewall like mcafee 
or norton or zonealarm (leave the antivirus on of course, just ditch the 
"internet security") on both machines should do it.

Brian K. White  --  brian "at" aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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