I have two machines, one is running windows xp and the other running knoppix. I've downloaded and installed vnc on both computers, and I can access windows from the knoppix machine, but not the other way around. Most recently I've tried pinging the knoppix machine from the windows machine but I get a "request timed out" message. When I try and use the vnc viewer from windows I get a "unable to connect to host: Connection timed out (10060)"

I'm also a total newb. I just read a tutorial on the basics of using bash today, so that's about the extent of my knowledge.

You most likely need to start the VNC Server on the Linux host in order to connect to it.

I've tried starting the vnc server in this way:

% ./vncserver

and I get this back:

vncserver: couldn't find "Xvnc" on your PATH

Currently I'm trying to run the server from home/bdayton/vnc but I've also tried running it from usr/local/bin where vncinstall put it, although I had to create a bin directory to do this. I've tried to run the server from usr/local/bin/vnc and got the same message.

BTW I just tried pinging the windows computer from the knoppix computer and it works fine.