VNC fails to start

[John Van Ostrand]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:40 -0400, wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to access my computer at home by using VNC through Firefox.  I just
> changed my router settings last night so that my internal IP is static and
> updated the port forwarding table to reflect the IP.  I also use ssh and can
> connect to ther computer no problem via ssh but when trying to connect to the
> server via Firefox, I get the Java loading screen then it fails with a message
> in the status bar saying "Loading Java Applet Failed".
> 
> I'm fairly certain I've set everything up correctly because I was able to VNC to
> the machine from itself by using my external IP.
> 
> Am I missing something here?  Thanks.

Perhaps it's just the web server portion of VNC that is having problems
(i.e. port 580x) Have you tried to use the vncviewer directly?

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