help about "reading version failed: not an RFB server?"

Alex Pelts alexp "at" broadcom.com
Fri Nov 3 17:31:01 2006


Under win xp you can run "netstat -a -o". That will give you pid of 
process which owns each connection. From there you can run task manager 
and find out who opened that connection. On unix there is a similar 
facility although switches are different and you need to be root to do it.

Regards,
Alex


danidani wrote:
> GREAT, it works with this trick!!
> 
> Now the question is... which program is using port 5900??!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/3/06, John Aldrich <john "at" chattanooga.net> wrote:
>> On Friday 03 November 2006 10:50, danidani wrote:
>>> Doing telnet ipaddress 5900 I obtain:
>>> :Welcome!psyBNC "at" lam3rz.de NOTICE * :psyBNC2.3.1
>>>
>>> running telnet ipaddress 5907 I get
>>>
>>> RFB 003.008
>>>
>>> and that is correct because I changed the port on the vnc server
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway I don't get access yet.
>>>
>> Try adding :7 to the name or IP address of the PC you're attempting to
>> connect
>> to from remote. Or you can put ::5907 after the name/ip address of the PC.
>>         John
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