Failed to connect: connection refused (10061)

[Bradley Bogue]

James, what address are you using to get on this forum? I cannot seem to get 
answers to questions about VNC answered and I think I'm not sending to the 
correct address.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Weatherall" <jnw "at" realvnc.com>
To: "'Jeff Hignett'" <jhignett "at" epixpharma.com>; <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:47 AM
Subject: RE: Failed to connect: connection refused (10061)


> Jeff,
>
> "Connection refused" means that nothing is accepting connections on the
> specified port, on the specified computer.  You may be connecting to the
> wrong computer by mistake, or VNC Server may not actually be running.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com
>> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Hignett
>> Sent: 15 May 2007 20:45
>> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
>> Subject: Failed to connect: connection refused (10061)
>>
>> Greetings all!
>>
>> If its not one thing its something else haha! First, I want
>> to thank you all
>> again for your help previously.
>>
>> Im still having difficulties trying to connect to my mac (OS
>> X) using my XP
>> machine. I am now receiving an error that says "Failed to connect:
>> connection refused (10061)". I checked to make sure that the
>> ports are both
>> set to 5900 and they are.
>>
>> I tried to telnet port 5900 from my mac and it was
>> unreachable. Im pretty
>> new to this, so does that mean that 5900 is disabled? If so, how do I
>> re-enable it?
>>
>> Just throwing it out there, I can get into my XP machine via
>> my Mac however.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Thanks again in advance!
>>
>> Jeff
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