Hi, Thanks for your response, I could connenct to the Centos PC from Windows using VNC. However, I do not see the icons etc., that I see when I access any windows PC. I ran the command ps aux and saw there is a vnc process running for iconic view, but 'm not able to view the icons on the desktop. What should I do to get access to the GUI? Thanks for your help, Padmaja ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:23 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Reg. VNC server and Windows and Centos interworking > Padmaja wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for such a fast response. I typed vncserver at the command line >> and it asked me for a password. It said I would require password to enter >> the desktop. I did not set any before so gave some dummy password. It >> again showed Verify and I typed the same password again. Then the screen >> showed something like >> >> for user padmaja, the startup script is in /home/padmaja/.vnc/Xstartup >> the startup applications are in /home/padmaja/.vnc/Xstartup >> the log file is in /home/padmaja/.vnc/sipserver.com.log >> >> After this I typed ps aux and saw that there is a Xvnc running againt pid >> 11435. >> >> Now, I tried to connect to the Centos PC from Windows using Vnc client >> and it gave the error >> >> "unable to connect to host: connection refused (10061)." >> >> I cant understand what the issue is. I am however able to connect to >> Windows PCs from VNC on windows. > > > Vncserver creates separate desktops for each instance and should have > given you a 'screen number" when you started it - probably :1 for the > first one. Then you have to specify the matching screen when you connect > from the client: hostname:1. If you have the firewall running on Centos, > you have to permit the appropriate port in ( 5900 + screen number). If > you are expecting to access the desktop running on the console you need a > different approach. KDE and Gnome have 'screen sharing' options for the > running desktop. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >