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Local loop-back connections are disbled

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Scooter
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Local loop-back connections are disbled

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When I click to connect I receive a notice that Local loop-back connections are disabled. What does this mean and how do I correct it.
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mattice06082
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Re: Local loop-back connections are disbled

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Right-click the eyeball icon in the system tray and select Admin Properties. Select Allow Loopback Connections as shown

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Re: Local loop-back connections are disbled

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loopback is only for internal testing has no other use... means your connecting the viewer on computer A to server on computer A

other word your vnc to same computer...
Last edited by X3 on 2008-10-18 00:15, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Local loop-back connections are disbled

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X3 wrote:loopback is only for internal testing has no other use.
not true
loopback is also for secure SSH and require loopback enabled
mattice06082 and JDaus can confirm this ?
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OS Win: xp home + vista business + 7 home
only experienced user, not developer
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Re: Local loop-back connections are disbled

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If you are running the SSH server and VNC server on the same machine, then you do need to enable loopback in order to tunnel the VNC traffic through the SSH tunnel.
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