Unable to connect to host (10061)

[James Weatherall]

Hi Jana,

Why have you restricted your VNC Server to only accept connections from the
local machine?

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Jana Nguyen
> Sent: 10 April 2006 23:01
> To: Andrey Vul
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Unable to connect to host (10061)
> 
> Thanks for the prompt response.
> 
> I have VNC server to listen to 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback
> interface only and not the public interface.  Do I need to have the
> VNC listen to the public interface as well, if so how?
> 
> [root "at" deep]# netstat -a
> Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address
>      Stat
>       e
> tcp        0      0 *:32770                     *:*
>      LIST
>       EN
> tcp        0      0 deep:5801            *:*
>      LIST
>       EN
> tcp        0      0 deep:5901            *:*
>      LIST
> 
> On 4/10/06, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul "at" gmail.com> wrote:
> > Error means that the remote port on the machine is closed. Try
> > port-forwarding your router and configuring your firewall. 
> I assume you
> > have a NAT router (private ip is 192.168.*.*).
> > What router are you using, what firewall (for iptables, 
> google "iptables
> > port forwarding" (without quotes), others I need to know 
> what firewall
> > you have). If you don't use ftpd, set vnc to port 21 (ftp)
> >
> >
> > Jana Nguyen wrote:
> > > I tried to connect to the vnc server (running on rh 
> linux) from the
> > > vnc viewer (running on windows xp), but I get an error:
> > >
> > > Unable to connect to host: connection refused(10061).  
> Which network
> > > am I making it listening to, the private or public?
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