Re: VNC/SSH problems

[Constantin K. <co...@ti...>]

Hello John,

>>>>> John Aldrich wrote:

> Per William Hooper's suggestion on the Fedora List, I have verified
> that I have "AllowTcpForwarding" set to "yes." Unfortunately, I'm
> still unable to connect. I'm getting the same error in the PuTTY log:
> 2007-09-25 08:35:40	Opening forwarded connection to localhost:5901
> 2007-09-25 08:35:41	Forwarded connection refused by server:
> Administratively prohibited [open failed]
> 
> Could this be a firewall issue with Fedora? I don't really understand
> why it would be, since I'm tunneling VNC over SSH, but maybe I'm
> missing something. As I've said, it's been awhile since I tried this.

I guess that's not a firewall or VNC issue. What I would do is
increasing the log level in sshd_config and inspecting the log after the
connection forwarding failure.

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With Best Wishes,
Constantin