On 06/05/2012 16:20, aurfalien wrote: > Hi all, > > I was at one time able to get x11vnc to start on 5900 but for some reason its listening on port 5903. > > Here is what the logs say; > > -- snippet > X display :0.0 > > -- snippet > The VNC desktop is: hostname:3 > > Why is the VNC desktop going to 3? > > I was working on 5900 previous to a reboot, unsure what changed, but something obviously has. > > It is an upper port > 1023, it is entirely possible that 5900, 5901, 5902 were used by outgoing connections at the time service establishment, and VNC just chose the next available port. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA Security, CCNA NetSecSpec Ltd giles.coochey at netsecspec.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 7983 877 438 Live Messenger: giles at coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk http://www.coochey.net