I am trying to connect VNC viewer on WINXP. I have vncserver running on port 5902 on my Fedora Linux 16 box. I keep getting the dreaded:

unable to connect to host: A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host (10065)

I started vnc server with command

vncserver

And received following message:

Warning: fel2:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
Remove this file if there is no X server fel2:1

New 'fel2:2 (yusuf)' desktop is fel2:2

Creating default startup script /home/yusuf/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /home/yusuf/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/yusuf/.vnc/fel2:2.log

Have setup port 5902 in Windows firewall

Also have setup port forwarding in my router (Westell versalink237w)

Service Details



Service Name
*vnc
Type
Port Forwarding
Port 1

Protocol
TCP
Global Port(s)
5900-5902
Base Host Port
5902

In the viewwer I;ve tried various combinations

192.168.1.96
192.168.1.96:5902
192.168.1.96:2

Nothing works.

Please any hints or suggestions where I might me going wromg with this.
Thanks.

remove the file
and again set the password

Hi Deepak,

Thanks for the reply. When I try the service command you mention:

$ sudo service vcnserver restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart vcnserver.service
Failed to issue method call: Unit vcnserver.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status vcnserver.service' for details.
[yusuf@fel2 ~]$ systemctl status vncserver.service
vncserver.service
Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

I'm sure this is pretty simple stuff. But I've just started using Linux and am still trying to figure out the basics.

please post your vncserver config file

Here are the contents of the log file located under .vnc/fel2:1.log

Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.3 - built Oct 15 2008 12:55:42
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 40201000, The XFree86 Project, Inc


Fri Feb 3 13:54:11 2012
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
xsetroot: unable to open display 'fel2:1'
/home/yusuf/.vnc/xstartup: line 7: twm: command not found
/home/yusuf/.vnc/xstartup: line 6: xterm: command not found
vncconfig: unable to open display "fel2:1"
------------------------
Here is the xstartup file under .vnc:


#!/bin/sh

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

Here is the xstartup file under .vnc:


#!/bin/sh

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

This:
And this:
Don't add up. Have you tried connecting to port 5901?

You can ignore any rules in your router and your Windows firewall, neither of them apply to what you're doing. The Windows firewall only controls incoming connections, not outgoing, and the port forwarding rules in the router are only used for connections from outside of your subnet. If you connect directly to the machine's local IP (192.168.1.96) from another machine on your subnet, the port forwarding rules in the router are irrelevant.

From the above excerpt from my logfile, could it be possible that X windows system is not installed on my machine???? How do I verify the installation of X windows?