Dear Christopher, I back at work now and I just ran regedit, In my HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\ORL\WinVNC3\ there are a few entries, but no ALLOWLOOPBACK. It's a Win2000 Advanced Server machine, and I believe I have administrator rights?
thanks Marijn On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Christopher Hickman wrote: > If you are using WinVNC, then you need to set the LoopbackOnly option. > I have run into this before. Here's a excerpt from the documentation > <http://realvnc.com/winvnc.html> that explains it: > > LoopbackOnly > By default, WinVNC servers accept incoming connections on any network > adapter address, since this is the easiest way of coping with > multihomed machines. In some cases, it is preferable to listen only for > connections originating from the local machine and aimed at the > "localhost" adapter - a particular example is the use of VNC over SSH > to provide secure VNC. Setting this registry entry to 1 will cause > WinVNC to only accept local connections - this overrides the > AllowLoopback and AuthHosts settings. Setting this entry to zero > causes WinVNC to accept connections on any adapter and is the default > setting. Local machine-specific setting. > > Local machine-specific settings. Options specified here are not > overridable. > Location: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\ > > Good luck, > Topher > > On Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 07:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I just started to play with vnc, but I do have > > experience with remote port forwarding with ssh. > > This is the problem I encountered: > > > > At work, behind my employers firewall, I run the vnc server > > (on windows 2000) on the standard 5900 port. I then use > > a ssh client to connect to my linux machine at home, therebye > > forwarding the remote port 5900 to the local port 5900 : > > "ssh -l root -R:5900:localhost:5900 my.machine.at.home", > > > > When at home, I run the vncviewer (for Linux), I expected to get > > my desktop at work when doing "vncviewer localhost", but the vncviewer > > stops and says, "local loopback connections are disabled". > > > > I guess my port forwarding is not the problem: when I try to telnet > > to localhost 5900, I get a response: > > > >> telnet localhost 5900 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). > > Escape character is '^]'. > > RFB 003.003 > > > > The vncviewer seems to prevent users from connecting > > to a server that runs on the same machine (because > > it doesn't make sense to do that), but in my case > > it does make sense, because I forwarded the port to > > (the same portnumber on) the machine at work. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > I would very much appreciate suggestions or help. > > > > Thanks > > Marijn > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
