Re: [gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo

[Mick]

On Thursday 17 July 2008, David Blamire-Brown wrote:
> I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using
> putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my
> head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it
> felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it, but
> I do remember that it worked.
>
> BB
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:19:45 -0500
>
> Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
> > Tightvnc installed with server flag and seems to be working, at least
> > as far as viewing from gentoo through servers running on windows
> > machines. But when tried the other way round I get no connecton and no
> > log output from the gentoo server.
> >
> > Just a message on the windows machine
> >    `Failed to connect to Xxx.xxx.xxx'.
> >
> > There is some log info on the windows side bit it appears to only
> > involve the server and nothing gets written to that file when I
> > attempt to start the viewer on a windows xp box aimed at the linux
> > box.
> >
> > The words `verbose' or `debug' do not appear anywhere in vncserver man
> > pages.  How can I get some debug info out of this thing?
> >
> > Or maybe someone knows what is needed to get the connection to work.

I tried connecting to a MSWindows RealVNC server with krdc and I remember that 
I couldn't login.  It could be latency across the pond, or network traffic 
causing the login to time out.  Eventually I ran out of patience/time and 
decided to remove the login passwd and instead lock down access to the 
RealVNC, MSWindows box and its network, from my IP address only.

I never discovered why authentication would not work.
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Regards,
Mick