Chicken VNC to Tight VNC connection

[verrami]

Hi,

I am a new mac user and installed chicken of the VNC to connect to a linux server (which is configured for tightVNC). I can ping the server and telnet to it without a problem but when I try to connect to it using chicken VNC, I am not getting anything.

I enter the host ip address and click connect on the "Open connections.." menu item and it seems to connect but I am not getting the follow up window that lets me access the server.

I was able to get to the server using a PC but unable to do using this machine.

Any advice on setting this up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

verrami

[Giaguara]

Hi,
Which version of Mac OS X do you have?
Are you on the same subnet or connecting over internet?
Any difference in using dns name?
Are any firewalls on (on Mac or physical ones)?
Do you even get an authentication dialog to connect to it?

Are your ports 5900 and 3238 open for VNC traffic? (can you get ping results for those ports?)
You may need to forward port 5900 in your router or open in the firewall....

[verrami]

Originally Posted by Giaguara

Hi,
Which version of Mac OS X do you have?
Are you on the same subnet or connecting over internet?
Any difference in using dns name?
Are any firewalls on (on Mac or physical ones)?
Do you even get an authentication dialog to connect to it?

Are your ports 5900 and 3238 open for VNC traffic? (can you get ping results for those ports?)
You may need to forward port 5900 in your router or open in the firewall....

Thanks for replying. I am running 10.5. I am able to ping/telnet into the server. I think it connects to the server. I ran cotVNC through terminal and got this message:

2007-11-30 11:12:37.510 Chicken of the VNC[705:10b] Server reports Version RFB 003.130

That seems to indicate that I am able to connect to the server but I do not get that follow up window. Also when I maximize the window I just enter the ip of the host 192.168.xxx.xxx and then enter the display number as 1 (as 5901 is open) but I do not get a follow up window.

I think the ports are open to server as I am using a PC (TightVNC) to connect to the server. At the moment I have disabled firewalls on the mac. My machine and the server are part of the same network.

[nixgeek]

After typing in the IP address of the VNC server, did you enter the colon and the VNC session number? For example, I know that TightVNC doesn't use the active X Window session (:0) by default, so it starts another X Window session (usually :1). Thus, you would have to type the following in CotVNC:

<ip-address>:1

Also, are you sure you have instances of TightVNC running on your GNU/Linux server?

[verrami]

I typed the following in the host window:

192.168.xxx.xxx:1 and clicked connect but I do not get the follow up window. I am running TightVNC on the server as I am using a PC (with TightVNC viewer) to get access to the server.

I get the following message (in the terminal) when trying to connect to the server:

2007-11-30 11:12:37.510 Chicken of the VNC[705:10b] Server reports Version RFB 003.130

That seems to indicate that I am connecting to the server but not getting the follow up window.

[nixgeek]

How do you have your xorg.conf file configured on the GNU/Linux server? What distro are you using?

[verrami]

The server runs SuSE linux. I am not sure about xorg.conf file. Can you tell me what needs to be configured in that file?

[nixgeek]

NEvermind....you don't need to do anything with the xorg.conf file. I was getting confused with something else VNC-related, but it has nothing to do with your problem.

I did find this page on SuSE Wiki explaining on how to set up TightVNC. It goes into more detail on some information you might not need, but the basics of getting it up and running are there.
http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Using_TightVNC

There's also this thread in Linuxquestions.org that talks about how to get it going:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht-vnc-442221/