[CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

Tue Feb 26 18:32:02 UTC 2013
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 02/26/2013 01:19 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>>> Will the VNC server allow remote logins as root?
>>  From root did you run vncpasswd to create the needed /root.vnc/ files?
> Yes, I did.  I see a /root/.vnc directory with a log, pid, passwd, and
> xstartup
> files.
>
> Any suggestions?

And your /etc/sysconfig/vncserver has something like;

VNCSERVERS="1:foo 2:root"

and you are attempting to connect to 5902 for the root user (compared to 
5901 for user foo)?