> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Poh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I know that this question is prohibited in the mailing as > stated in the FAQ. Sorry for annoying anyone. Your help is > very much appreciated. I stayed in the > university campus and try to connect to a VNC server in my > lab from my personal computer at my accommodation. It seems
You're a student, I'm not going into details, I will give you some guidelines. > that the VNC viewer cannot find the > server. I have tried using host name and host ip address, but > it still failed. The strange thing is that, I can ping the You can ping: the route is ok, no problem here. Can you do a telnet? Try `telnet machine 5900` or add the display number to the portnumber. You should get a message with "RFB..." in it. > server just fine. I can also use SSH to connect If you can use ssh, does ping use ssh (accidetly)? Search the archives on vnc over ssh connections and the odds in there. > as well. I am sure the VNC server is running just fine, > because I can connect to it from a different computer > running VNC viewer in the same lab. Can anyone > help? See above, success, CBee _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
