"Robert A. Book" wrote: > I'm not sure how to fix the underlying problem, but you can work > around it with an SSH tunnel, if VNC will accept a connection from > "localhost". > > Suppose VNC is running on display :1 on vncserver.mydomain.com. This > corresponds to port 5801. From machine3.mydomain.com, run: > > ssh -L 5802:vncserver.mydomain.com:5801 machine3.mydomain.com > > Then also from machine3.mydomain.com (in another shell window > perhaps), run: > > vncviewer localhost:2 > > This assumes there is nothing else running on port 5802 of > machine3.mydomain.com (for example, no vncserver on display :2). > > You can replace 5802 with any unused port, but it's easiest to use > something that is 5800+N where N is small, since "vncviewer > localhost:N" connects to port 5800+N. > > --Robert > > > Hi, > > I am using vncserver on Redhat 7.3. it's the one distributed with Redhat > > install CD. > > In my machine, I uses hosts.deny to block all connection, and hosts.allow to > > allow any connection from my domain. It works fine with telnet, ssh, etc. > > > > VNCServer however, seems to have trouble recognizing machine name. So if for > > example I connect from machine3.mydomain.com, it will be refused by vnc, > > saying Connection from <ip_address of machine 3> refused. Eventhoug if I > > explicitly put > > ALL: machine3.mydomain.com in my hosts.allow, vnc will still refuse it. > > > > It seems that it can't convert/lookup the IP address to machine name so that > > it can recognize that machine3 is in my domain. The only way I can make it > > work is if I type the IP Address of machine 3 in my hosts.allow. > > > > Is there any workaround for this? Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Reuben D. Budiardja > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Thanks. I will give it a try. Regards, Robert _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
