Your ssh command takes local port 5901 from your home computer, and forwards
it to port 5900 on the work computer. However, your work computer is
listening on port 5901. Also, your VNC command wants to connect to port
5900 on your home computer, which isn't doing anything. (This leads me to
guess that your home PC is not running a VNC server, correct?). Assuming
that your ssh connection is successful, and that your work machine permits
you (that is, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] user), then all you need to do is
correctly match up your ports, which you can do by either, but not both, of
the methods below.
Either:
On the work machine type "vncserver :0" or just "vncserver" to start it; it
will then listen on port 5900. When you connect, type "localhost:1". This
option will means that your work machine will listen on the expected port
form VNC, and also that you can run a VNC server on your home machine that
also listens on port 5900 that will work correctly when the ssh connection
is established.
Or:
Change the ssh command to: "ssh -L 5900:localhost:5901 [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Note that this option will create a clash with a VNC server running on your
home machine on the default port, should you decide to set one up, since
both the VNC server and ssh will try to listen on that port.
Doing both of the above will cause the problem you had before to re-appear,
since you will have swapped ports at each end.
Also, like Jaroslaw said, make sure that your ssh server permits tunnelling.
If it is not permitted, you won't get any messages to that effect when you
start ssh: the terminal side will still function but the tunnelling part
will be silently dropped.
Hope this helps,
Stewart [NutmeG] Becker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sonali Tamhankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: unable to connect to host: connection refused (11061)
Hello,
I am having trouble using vnc from my home computer. I just installed
viewer and server but did not click "start the server" box. I set up
password. Then I logged onto my work machine with the command "ssh -L
5901:localhost:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED]". I did type "vncserver :1" on my
work machine, and ps tells me Xvnc is running on that machine. Now if I
try to run vnc viewer from my home computer, and type "localhost" for
server name, I get the above message. Can someone please tell me why
this might be happening?
Thanks so much,
- Sonali.
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