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* Re: [gentoo-user]  What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
  @ 2008-07-17 21:04 99% ` David Blamire-Brown
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From: David Blamire-Brown @ 2008-07-17 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw
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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@newsguy.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.
> 
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