Re: [gentoo-user] VNC over SSH (VNC session is non-local to SSH)

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:55, Mark Shields wrote:

> Guys, there's no need to keep replying.  Thanks for the help, but I'm able
> to do it now (have been for the past 4 e-mails)

I'm glad you got it sorted Mark.

A vaguely related but quite O/T question: would you perhaps know why when I 
select "connect to local ports only" (in the VNC server running on a WinXP 
box, under the Properties tab Connections) to stop it listening to ports 
connected to the Internet, I can no longer connect from another WinXP box 
through ssh port forwarding?  No problem connecting to the VNC server from my 
Gentoo box, or from the WinXP box using Knoppix.  The error that comes up on 
the VNC viewer is something like "the connection was unexpectedly terminated, 
would you like to try again".  Telnet-ing through the forwarded port 
similarly fails - the telenet session hangs waiting for a response from the 
server.  As soon as I remove the "connect to local ports only" the WinXP VNC 
viewer connects happily again.  Is this a WinXP bug?
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Regards,
Mick

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