Trouble connecting to VNC Server

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Sep 15 17:25:38 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 12:11 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I'm needing to access my machine from Windows XP. I've installed
> vnc4server and done the necessary configurations to get GNOME up as a
> session manager and allow me to log in. On the Windows machine, I've
> installed TightVNC and everything looked fine.
> 
> I tried to connect to my Ubuntu machine from Windows and I am told
> "Connection Established" but that's as far as it goes. Never prompts
> me for a password, never shows a login, nothing.
> 
> Any idea what might be going wrong?
> 
> Thanks!
> Anthony
> 
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Hi Anthony

Have you allowed remote connections in System > Preferences > Remote
Desktop?

Tony







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