vnc port forwarding

[Zahid Rahman]

On another machine running from same local area network I have vnc running.



On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, 2:11 pm Colin Law, <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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