VNC fails to start

[wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org]

Quoting John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org>:

> 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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Thanks for the advice, but it turned out to be a misconfigured router; two
machines with the same IP...dumb.

Tom Watts
wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org

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