I am trying to log into a desktop that is running CentOS 4.2 by tennelling VNC through SSH..
The desktop auto-logins a user, then sits there waiting for me to login.
On the client side, I fire up SSH tunneling ssh -L 8000:127.0.0.1:5900
The client spits back the error vncviewer: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused Unable to connect to VNC server
The server says channel 5: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused channel 5: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
I've tried ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 ssh -L 8000:localhost:5900
and neither work.
I've also tried using the command vino-preferences on the remote desktop. It tells me to connect to vnc:/IP-address:0
Whats interesting is that if I issue the command vncserver on the remote desktop, it starts up a new server on display :1. I can connect to this display with no issues via the SSH tunnel.
Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? I use SSH tunneling and VNC with display :0 on SUSE 10.0 machines all the time without issues.
thanks