Re: [suse-oracle] Accessing a System from a Windows Client

From: Rainer Kaluscha (rainer.kaluscha_at_medizin.uni-ulm.de)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 18:05:09 CEST


Message-ID: <4256ABB5.4030805@medizin.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:05:09 +0200
From: Rainer Kaluscha <rainer.kaluscha@medizin.uni-ulm.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Accessing a System from a Windows Client

Weiss, Rick schrieb:

> I am trying to access my SLES-9 server console from a Windows XP Pro
> workstation. I am trying to work with Oracle Support on an installation
> issue, but their collaboration conferencing won't connect to a Linux
> system. So my goal is to present the console via a VNC type interface
> on my Windoze client so we can work through the TAR.
>
> On my SLES box I have VNC installed, I have enabled remote
> administration, I have restarted the server. There should be nothing
> there that prevents access (a port access issue maybe???). On my XP
> box, I have Real VNC installed - it works accessing other windows
> boxes. I tried using VNC to access the SLES server using SERVER:5801
> and received a connection timeout error. I also tried a browser
> (Firefox and Mozilla) using http://server:5901 and got the same error
> message.
Use server:1 (which connects to port 5901 BTW, you have to specify the display
number, *not* the port number) on your client - that works for me.

Good luck,
Rainer

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