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  • New PC: Weird VNC client issue

    From Nightfox@77:1/110 to All on Sun Jun 23 21:14:18 2019
    I built a new desktop PC recently and have been installing and setting up all my software. I normally use VNC to remote desktop to my BBS machine and my Linux machine (running Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.1) - and my BBS is running in Windows 7 32-bit in a VirtualBox machine on my Linux machine. I installed TightVNC on my new desktop, and I can VNC to my Windows BBS VM, but when I try to VNC to my Linux machine, it doesn't connect, but it doesn't report any errors either. After I click the Connect button, the TightVNC server input window disappears and then nothing happens at all. I'm not sure what's going on, since it doesn't report an error. I can VNC to my BBS Windows VM just fine

    though.. Has anyone seen that happen with VNC before?

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Mon Jun 24 00:35:34 2019
    I built a new desktop PC recently and have been installing and setting
    up all my software. I normally use VNC to remote desktop to my BBS machine and my Linux machine (running Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.1) - and my BBS is running in Windows 7 32-bit in a VirtualBox machine on my Linux machine. I installed TightVNC on my new desktop, and I can VNC to my Windows BBS VM, but when I try to VNC to my Lin ux machine, it doesn't connect, but it doesn't report any errors either. After I click the Connect button, the TightVNC server input window disappears and then nothing happens at all. I'm not sure what's going on, since it doesn't report an error. I can VNC to my BBS Windows VM just fine though.. Has anyone seen th at happen with VNC before?

    Just a shot in the dark (and a perfect test here of my Mystic to Husky switch over), do you have iptables or anything similar running on the Linux VM that would prevent port 5900?

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Mon Jun 24 09:34:58 2019
    Re: Re: New PC: Weird VNC client issue
    By: Netsurge to Nightfox on Mon Jun 24 2019 12:35 am

    Just a shot in the dark (and a perfect test here of my Mystic to Husky switch over), do you have iptables or anything similar running on the Linux VM that would prevent port 5900?

    I don't think so.. I haven't changed anything at all on my Linux machine though, so I'm not sure what would have changed.

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