YAQ Setting up vncviewer

[John Abreau]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Labitt, Bruce wrote:

> YAQ... :)
> 
> I'd like to vnc from my centos4.5 box (so far) to a ps3 running YDL6.  I
> can ssh from centos to ydl without a problem.  However, when I try to 
>
> vnc from centos to ydl I get
>
> Main: unable to connect to host:  No route to host (113)
>
> This is on a local network, so there is only a local dhcp server handing 
> out ip's.  There is no nameserver.
>
> I can ping from centos to ydl and vice versa.  Any ideas on what to look 
> for?  I am running vncserver on ydl, although it seems to make no 
> difference on the centos to ydl vncviewer error output.

Iptables on the ps3 is blocking port 5900. You need to open
that port in order to connect to its vnc server.


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