Remote Connection

[Rob Weir]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:13:11AM +0100, Thomas Beckett said
> I want to enable reomote conenction to my Ubuntu box at home from my
> machine here at work . I have set Gnome to allow remote connection. I
> have also forwarded port 5900 from my router at home to my ubuntu box.
> When I try to connect with Raal VNC (on windows) it fails with a
> refused connection message (cant remember exact message as i dont have
> my ubuntu box turned on today). nc does not list port 5900 as
> listening even though i asked for remote connection to be enabled in
> Gnome (Vino). I assume that when i enter the IP address of my
> router/dsl modem at home, the packets are forwarded to my linux box on
> port 5900, but that the box is not listening so it cant connect. How
> can I open the port to listen?

Does "netstat -pluant | grep 5900" on your Ubuntu machine show that it's
listening on that port?  If no, it didn't start correctly, if yes then
your router is misconfigured.  Or you have a firewall or something on
the Ubuntu machine (not there by default).

-rob

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