Hi all. I have just set up a VNC server on a Vista machine (I wish it was Linux, but it is not my computer). I have tried testing the connection on an in house network. I get dropped before it accepts my connection request. I don't think it is a firewall as I have shut them all down. I have no idea what to do. Here is the message I get.
or this if I try to use the actual viewer
Any ideas?

Hi Bud.

How do you connect? vncviewer 192.168.1.3:0 this is the way I am doing it. Adding 0 or 1 after the IP solves the problem sometimes.

Andy

I tried using the standard ports (5800,5900). The viewer and web page viewer are letting me connect, but the remote computer kicks me off before it brings up a desktop. Here is how I type it in.
I have no idea why it won't let me in. According to the readme, tightVNC should work with no config changes made. I only changed the login password. I am at a loss.

I was doing exactly the same mistake.

[hagrid@WISHMASTER ~]$ nmap 192.168.1.3

Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-11-23 14:42 CST
Interesting ports on XXXXXXXXXX (192.168.1.3):
Not shown: 1709 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
5900/tcp open vnc

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.257 seconds
[hagrid@WISHMASTER ~]$ vncviewer 192.168.1.3:5900
vncviewer: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused
Unable to connect to VNC server

BUT when I do

[hagrid@WISHMASTER ~]$ vncviewer 192.168.1.3:0
Connected to RFB server, using protocol version 3.7
Enabling TightVNC protocol extensions
Performing standard VNC authentication
Password:

I am typing in a passwd and it lets me in.

Type in vncviewer 192.168.1.101:0

or vncviewer 192.168.1.101:1

Hope I have helped

Andy

Yeah the number after the ip is the 'Display' you want to connect to not the port number, the vnc server is running an X server so it gets assigned a display number just like your typical desktop X server. This allows you to run any number of vnc servers on a box, the display number just increases with each one you fire up.

I tried just using 0 instead of a port number. It gives me the password prompt, but I get kicked off as soon as a connection is established. When I try from the web browser, the same thing happens. As soon as I give my password, I get kicked off. I simply get an error message saying connection closed.

Are you giving it the correct password?

It should be the right password. I set up the server and even changed it to a generic password when I couldn't get in the first time. I wouldn't gaurentee that my configuration is being saved. I have tried accessing the loopback to the server and I get an error saying that loopback is disabled even though I am pretty sure I set it up to do loopback. Do you know what the default password is? That might let me in.

As far as I know there isn't a default password for tightvnc, but that might be different for the windows server. Does the server log somewhere? That might provide some additional detail as to why the connection is dropping.

Thanks for the help. I will try to check the logs. The whole reason I tried to set this up was that I can not access this machine very often. It is for a non-profit organization. Now that school has started, I can't get there. They all go home before school is over, so I can only get there on weekends sometimes.

I know there is a default password. I had to remove it to put the new one in. I wish they had got her a Linux box instead.

On some Desktops (gnome on Fedora) there is a setting (tied to that specific account) that allows/prohibits remote login. Since you are getting to the password section before you are getting kicked off, I suspect this is the type of problem you are facing. Unfortunately I THINK you have to be at the machine to change this.

In Fedora (F8 Gnome) it is System->Preferences->Internet & Network->Remote Desktop.