[CentOS] Unablce to open VNC

Todd Cary todd at aristesoftware.com
Sat Feb 3 17:12:32 UTC 2007


I have found these "HowTo's", but I cannot get it working.

http://wheatstraw.is-a-geek.org/VNC%20through%20SSH%20Tunneling.html

http://www.science.smith.edu/~ejensen/vncssh.html

I use the Tectia SSH Client, though I do have putty.

Todd

Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:05 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
>   
>> I have vnc working on my server when I am logged into that server.  If I 
>> run vncviewer, I have a copy of the Desktop.  Hwever, if I SSH into the 
>> server, I get an error.  Due to my lack of experience, I am not sure 
>> what the log file means:
>>
>> http://209.204.172.137/misc/vnc_error.txt
>>     
>
> If you explain it with more details this should be easier to understand
> what you're trying to do ...
> It seems you're trying to have a vncserver working on your 'server'
> machine. How have you launched that vncserver ? through the
> standard /etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver script ?
> What are the ports you're using ? Is a firewall running on that
> 'server' ?
> Did you mean you wanted to use ssh with port-forwarding to be able to
> connect on the remote vnc server through the ssh tunnel ?
> etc ...
>
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