No other special services needed on the server.įrom the remote, use ssh to start the x11vnc server, and tunnel port 5900 back to the remote (assumed to be on. X should be running on the server, but no existing login is needed (you will connect to the login screen). For outside the local network, ensure you have a passthrough for your ssh (port 5900 will be tunneled, so nothing special needed for it). In today’s write-up, we discussed this topic in detail and saw how our Support Engineers find the fix for different scenarios.To your working ssh setup, add a vnc server like x11vnc to your server and a viewer like xtightvncviewer to your remote machine. In short, the VNC connection refused error may occur due to different reasons depending on OS, VNC, etc. Here we discussed only a few scenarios handled by our Support Engineers. Fix may vary depending on the OS and VNC (TightVNCTigerVNC, UltraVNC, etc). Note: Ports 5901 and upwards can use if you have multiple displays and the next consecutive port number for each display.

We edited the port in: /usr/bin/vncserver So, our Engineers configured the VNC server to the specified port.

When checked, we found that he established a direct connection and he specified a port other than the default for VNC (5900) but didn’t configure VNC Server to use that port. VNC not running on the specified range of portĪlso, We recently handled a situation when a customer approached us with the same error. So we ran the vncserver command as newuser and set the password and then restarted the service using : service vncserver startĢ. But found that he logged in as root when he ran the command vncserver for starting a VNC server. On analyzing the server our Engineers found that the VNC server was not running.Īnd we found that the problem was that he tried to get in as the user newuser after installing the server and setting the password. Let us discuss how our Support Engineers resolve the error for our customers. Recently one of our customers approached us saying that he is getting a connection refused by computer error when he tried to start vnc. How we fix VNC the connection refused by the computer error Today we are going to discuss how our Support Engineers fix it for our customers.

VNC not running on the specified range of port.

The two main causes handled by our Engineers are: But there are scenarios where an error like VNC connection refused by the computer to occur while trying to connect. VNC is a graphical desktop-sharing system in order to control another computer remotely. Scenarios where VNC the connection refused by the computer error occurrs Today, we’ll see how our Support Engineers fix this. One of the main reasons for the VNC connection refused by the computer error is, VNC server not running on the specified port.Īt Bobcares, we get requests on VNC errors, as a part of our Server Management Services. Oops!! Frustrated with VNC the connection was refused by the computer error?

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