VNC problems

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at embarqmail.com
Fri Sep 21 20:02:55 UTC 2007


John Aldrich wrote:
> I have asked on the VNC list and gotten deafening silence. I'm trying
> to use PuTTY on the Windows side of things to create an SSH tunnel for VNC.
> I've gotten PuTTY (and another SSH client) to connect to the
> linux box, but I can't seem to get VNC to connect.
>
> One of the SSH clients I'm using has given me a cryptic error message:
> "Server rejected our attempt to open a client-side client-2-server
> connection - reason: SSH_OPEN_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED, description:
> open failed."

Technically, it is an SSH problem, not a VNC problem.

Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config for the value of "AllowTcpForwarding".

-- 
William Hooper




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