On Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 02:01:20PM -0500, Peter Bunn wrote:
> Robin Hill wrote:
>
> >All looks okay so far. Have you enabled loopback connections in VNC?
> >By default the VNC server will not accept connections on the loopback
> >(127.0.0.1) address. There should be an option in the server config to
> >enable loopback connections (I'm not running RealVNC here so I can't
> >tell you exactly what/where it is).
>
> --
>
> I'm guessing this is the option in the VNC server properties Connections
> tab under 'Access Control' that has a checkbox for "Only accept
> connections from the local machine."
>
> About which the RealVNC documentation says:
>
> "Only accept connections from the local machine
>
> LocalHost=true|false
>
> The LocalHost option tells VNC Server to only accept incoming connections
> from Viewers running on the local host computer. This is only normally
> used when connections are to tunnelled through a custom transport (e.g.
> serial line, custom wireless, etc) and will therefore appear to the TCP
> stack to originate from the local host. If VNC Server is configured to
> accept connections only via local loopback then the Hosts option is
> ignored."
>
I guess that's it, yes - not sure what the default for loopback
connections is nowadays. In 3.3 there was an "Enable loopback" option,
in TightVNC (which is what I use) there's both an "Enable loopback" and
a further "Loopback only" setting. The documentation doesn't appear to
cover whether this'll work by default or not - it's probably worth
testing it first if you're using a Windows system.
Cheers,
Robin
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