On 02/25/2013 11:33 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I tried following the instructions on this page to set up a VNC > server: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server > > I can telnet to port 5901 from the machine itself: > # telnet 127.0.0.1 5901 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > RFB 003.008 > > But, when I try to connect to it from the outside world, I get a connection > timeout. > > My /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file does not have the -nolisten tcp nor the > -localhost > options so it should be configured to accept outside connections. > > Is there some default setting in the vncserver that I need to change to > allow outside > connections? And what about iptables?