VNC server/viewer problem

[Alex Pelts]

After connection is closed do netstat and see if server is still
running. Or maybe ps. I think your server is exiting for some reason.
You can look at the logs which it saves, your clue is likely to be
there. And I think you mean 8.04 not 4.08.

Regards,
Alex


Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Hi Y'all,
>
> I am new to VNC but not to Linux or Ubuntu, however, still very much human.
>
> I installed vnc4server on the remote system(the_host) which is my 
> firewall server. It will be headless when I get finished getting things 
> worked out so that I can control it remotely.
>
> I installed vnc4viewer on the system I was working from(viewing_host)
>
> No problems
>
> I then started up the viewer - IT WORKED!
>
> I then changed the display I was working on to full screen and could not 
> get back; yeah I know RTFM first but I didn't... I forced a reboot of my 
> system and tried again and got the following message:
>
> Connection to host "the_host:5900" was closed.
>
> I have restarted both systems, no help. Searched the VNC site for 
> information on the error and was not able to find anything that 
> indicated a solution. I also tried searching the Ubuntu forum...
>
> I have enabled port 5900 for the viewing_host in firestarter on the_host.
>
> The message still appears...
>
> I am running 4.08 LTS and VNC 4.1 on both systems
>
> How do I solve this problem?
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>