Trouble connecting to VNC Server

[NoOp]

On 09/15/2010 10:11 AM, 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?

When you enabled the Remote Desktop option you enabled the vino server.
It's probably using your vnc ports (5900 & 5901) & conflicting with
vnc4server. They are both vnc server applications & default to the same
ports.

I think your options will be:

1. Remove vnc4server and just use vino (Remote Desktop) or vis a vis.
2. Configure vnc4server to use different ports (or vino to use different
ports).

These might be of help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Servers
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Clients
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC

This post indicates that you might need to change the TightVNC encoding
to CoRRE with vnc4server:
<http://kemovitra.blogspot.com/2009/05/remote-desktop-session-with-vnc4server.html>

Note: I use RealVNC or NoMachines NX for connecting from Windows to my
Gnome systems. RealVNC works w/o issue to vino. NX works extreemly well
but creates a separate desktop window unless you enable VNC mode & then
it slows down to VNC speeds/responses.