VNC - connection refused (111)

Colin Paul Adams colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Sat Aug 9 14:14:25 UTC 2008


>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> writes:

    Patrick> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:42 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
    >> writes:
    >> 
    Patrick> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 07:48 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >> Hello, I have recently re-installed fedora on a client machine
    >> >> (Fedora 9 from FC6) and now from that machine VNC connection
    >> >> does not work any more (it did with FC6 installed).
    >> >> 
    >> >> Iptables is not running on either machine.
    >> 
    Patrick> Yes it is. It just doesn't show up as a process because
    Patrick> it's part of the kernel. The iptables command is used to
    Patrick> manipulate the tables but doesn't run continuously.
    >> 
    Patrick> Run system-config-firewall and see what it says.
    >> 
    >> bummer!  You were right, so I disabled it. And on the other
    >> machine too.

    Patrick> I can't remember off the top of my head whether disabling
    Patrick> the firewall leaves everything open or everything
    Patrick> closed. In any case, you can check with 'iptables -L'.

All three chains are policy ACCEPT, so that should be OK.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire




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