vnc port forwarding

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 14:09:18 UTC 2021


On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 14:07, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 13:38 +0000, Zahid Rahman wrote:
> > according to  https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/
> > I have ports open for port 80 443 and 22.
> > I have done the same steps yet  5900 vnc says closed.
> > Is there something extra I need to do  for  port 5900 ?
>
> Adding to what Colin said:
>
> - is the VNC server running on the computer you have forwarded port
> 5600 to?

Or even 5900

Colin

>
> - did you forward TCP port 5600 (UDP port 5600 won't work)
>
> - do you have anything running on your computer that might be blocking
> the port - like a firewall?
>
> - do you know that the VNC server is actually running" Try "ps ax |
> grep -i vnc".
>
> You could also check whether something is listening on TCP port 5600 by
> running 'netstat -an | grep tcp | grep 5600'. VNC uses a range of
> ports, so you could also try 'netstat -an | grep tcp | grep "56.."'. If
> you don't have netstat, try connecting to the port locally using e.g.
> 'telnet localhost 5600'.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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