I'm having problems connecting to my Fedora box via VNC. I keep getting connection refused. I set up a rule for the firewall to allow TCP connections 5900-5902 and still no luck. I connect via ssh run the command vncserver :1 and it says it starts, but when I try to connect I'm unable to. I've tried connecting directly with vnc to ipaddr:1 and I've also tried tunneling through ssh (which I do to my RedHat 9.0 box). I know it's probably something I'm overlooking. I've searched google and everywhere else I could think and couldn't find an answer. Any ideas?

OK, but is there a rule in front of this one that might drop the packets? To test this, I'd either put this rule as the first one in the INPUT chain or take down the firewall entirely and see if you can connect then.

yes it was in front of any rules that would drop packets. It was right after the rule that allows me to connect via webmin. I disabled the firewall last night and still couldn't connect. Now can someone tell me how to turn the firewall back on since I can't do it via webmin.

Well, if you took the firewall down and you still can't connect, that suggests that vncserver isn't doing its job. If you run ps -A you should see that Xvnc is running and if you do a netstat -l or [/B]nmap localhost[/B] you should see that something is listening on the appropriate ports.

As for restarting your firewall, it may depend on how you normally start it. On my machine I just have to run a script (/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall) and its up. I"m not sure about RedHat, though maybe service iptables restart will do the trick.