[CentOS] VNC

[Terre Porter]

You can specify the port with the IP by using the colon with the ip.

x.x.x.x:5901 or x.x.x.x:5902


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Larry Martell
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 6:35 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] VNC

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Terre Porter
<tporter at webpage-builders.com>wrote:

> The instructions out linked to has a type-o at the end says to connect 
> to
> ip:5801 should be 5901.
>
> If your using a vnc client uvnc,  tightvnc..  try using just the ip 
> without the :port part or :1 for the 5901.
>

I am unfortunately connecting from a windows box that I do not have admin
rights on.  I have to use the client provided, which is RealVNC Viewer. All
I can do is give the ip.


> Try  lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"
>
> To see what ports are listening...
>


 [root at 10 sysconfig]# lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"  | grep vnc
Xvnc      22052   motor    4u  IPv4 527366      0t0  TCP
localhost.localdomain:5901 (LISTEN)
Xvnc      22286   motor    4u  IPv4 530145      0t0  TCP
localhost.localdomain:5902 (LISTEN)


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On 
> Behalf Of Larry Martell
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 6:05 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] VNC
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Terre Porter
> <tporter at webpage-builders.com>wrote:
>
> > Try this, iptables dump from my fresh install, with ssh allow and 
> > the vnc you referenced.
> >
> > Terre
> >
> > # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Fri Oct 11 17:39:52 2013 
> > *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT 
> > [45:7091] -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A 
> > INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m 
> > state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state 
> > --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -m multiport --dports
> > 5901:5903,6001:6003 -j ACCEPT
> > -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited -A FORWARD -j 
> > REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT # Completed on Fri 
> > Oct 11 17:39:52 2013
> >
> >
> OK, with this file I'm getting connection timed out - before I was 
> getting connection refused so I guess that's some progress.
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] 
> > On Behalf Of Larry Martell
> > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 5:36 PM
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] VNC
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Earl Ramirez 
> > <earlaramirez at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 15:18 -0600, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to set up a VNC server using the instructions at
> > > >
> > > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/linux-101-e
> > > as
> > > y-
> > > vnc-server-setup/
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > I am up to step 6:
> > > >
> > > > Step 6: Edit iptables
> > > >
> > > > In order for the VNC connections to get through, you must allow 
> > > > them with iptables. To do this, open up the file 
> > > > /etc/sysconfig/iptables and add
> > > the
> > > > line:
> > > >
> > > > -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -m multiport 
> > > > --dports
> > > > 5901:5903,6001:6003 -j ACCEPT
> > > >
> > > > Save the file and restart iptables with the command:
> > > >
> > > > service iptables restart
> > > >
> > > > When I issue the restart command I get:
> > > >
> > > > iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 1 
> > > > failed
> > > >
> > > > [FAILED]
> > > >
> > > > Note that I did not have an iptables file before but there is an 
> > > > iptables-config file.
> > > >
> > > > Can someone help me complete this configuration.
> > >
> > > Can you post the content of the file, I just edit the config file 
> > > and I didn't get any errors when I issue the command
> > >
> > > $ sudo /sbin/service iptables restart
> > >
> > >
> > As I wrote, there was no iptables file. I created one with just that 
> > one
> > line:
> >
> > -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -m multiport --dports
> > 5901:5903,6001:6003 -j ACCEPT
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