Trouble connecting to VNC Server

[Tim Henderson]

> 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
>

Perhaps you need to setup port forwarding in your router.  It really 
depends on how your connecting though.  I use x11vnc instead of 
vnc4server, you may have better results with that...probablhy not 
though.  There's probably somethign else going on.

Did you by chance install and run firestarter?  I know that will alter 
your iptables to block all (mostly) ports until you open them up.

Good luck,

Tim H