I don't really know squat about this general kind of software (VNC type
stuff). But I was reading about it and seemed like it might be useful
in my own mixed Win7/FreeBSD environment, so I wanted to give it a try.
I proceeded to download and install the latest & greatest "stable"
tigervnc on my Windows 7 system, and that all seemed to work OK.
Then I built & installed tigervnc also on my FreeBSD system
(from the ports tree) and that also all seemed to work OK.
Then, figuring that the Win7 install had started up a tigervnc
server on that (Win7) machine for me, I just ran vncviewer on the
FreeBSD system (from teh command line). It started up on and then
immediately popped up a little window which asked me for the identity
of the VNC server that I wanted to connect to. I had no idea what
sort of designator I was supposed to enter into that text box, so
I just tried putting in the IP address of my Win7 system (on my
local net, i.e. 192.168.1.178).
Well, that didn't work. The vncviewer just sat there for awhile
and then informed me:
CConn: unable connect to socket: Operation timed out (60)
OK, so what did I do wrong?
How can I tell if my Win7 system is or is not running a server?
And if it isn't, then how do I force it to do so?
What sort of designator does vncviewer need in order to know which
specific server to connect to? Is that a dotted-quad IPv4 address,
or something else?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
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