Hello List, I have just yesterday downloaded andinstalled vnc 3.3.4 on two RedHat 7.1 boxes, one in the office and one at home. The office systems have ADSL connection to the Internet, with PAT (Port Address Translation) provided by the ISP and an internal hardware firewall. Because of the PAT I cannot easily access ports 5800+. Instead I am trying to use a connection through ssh as suggested in the realvnc docs.
I have tried to stick to a simple install setup to begin with. On the remote (work) machine, as root: 1. ran vncpasswd 2. replaced 'twm &*' with 'startx -- :1 &' at end of the supplied xstartup file. (We don't have twm, and without the '-- :1' the xstartup was trying to start a server on display :0 which is already in use) 3. ran 'vncserver &', got response "New 'X' desktop is linux01:1". I can see Xvnc is running on the server: [root@linux01 13:40 ~/.vnc]v# ps -aefw | grep vnc root 8202 1 0 13:36 pts/17 00:00:00 Xvnc :1 -desktop X -httpd /usr/local/vnc/classes -auth /root/.Xauthority -geometry 1 On my local (home) machine: 1. set up ssh to forward local 5902 traffic to remote 5901 (I have called the office machine q1 in my hosts file) [victor:09:25 victor]$ ssh -L 5902:q1:5901 q1 victor@q1's password: Last login: ... etc ... [victor@linux01 13:20 ~]$ (this gives me a login on q1 that I don't particularly require, but what the heck...) 2. Try to start the vnc viewer on the local end of the ssh tunnel, it fails: [victor:13:13 victor]$ vncviewer localhost:2 VNC viewer version 3.3.4 - built Oct 2 2002 09:37:15 Copyright (C) 2002 RealVNC Ltd. Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. ReadFromRFBServer: rdr::EndOfStream I tried Googling for this error but got zero hits. In fact I see that same client-side failure even if i stop the server with "vncserver -kill :1". So I think I must have missed at least a couple of things - is anyone able to tell me ehre I went wrong? thanks in advance - -- Victor Churchill Qonnectis Group Ltd _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
