[solved] connection problem

[anubisxl]

Hi there,

I'm trying to connect to my home pc (windows 7 64bit) from my office (with proxy, win xp).
I basically followed the tutorial of Cameron W. with small changes found here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/513251

I set up freesshd (instead of openSSH) and UVNC 1.0.8.2 64bit and opened port 443 on my router at home and enabled loopback connections in VNC.
I can connect to my home PC via ssh using putty without any problems.
I then built up a tunnel sourceport: 5999 to localhost:5900

but can not connect to my vnc server:


Connection failed - End of Stream

Possible causes:

-Another user is already listening on this ID
-Bad Connection


I really doubt that it's a connection issue as both home and office have highspeed DSL connections without latency problems


There are some posts on this topic but they aren't of any help...

Any thoughts?

[redge]

try first to update to actual release 1.0.9.5, then you can trouble shoot more if error still exist

[anubisxl]

Updated last night to 1.0.9.5 but still same error message

Any other ideas?

What does actually ID in "listening on this ID" mean??

[redge]

enable loopback connection on winvnc, required for your usage
disable Loopbackonly

if you use repeater
you have another connection using the name number ID
close vncvieer and
check task manager if you have a vncviewer crunched and terminate vncviewer

is your private repeater
or
do you use public free repeater for personal usage ?

how do you connect ? by command line interface or graphic User Interface ?

[anubisxl]

Loppback connection is allowed and loopback only disabled.
There's definitely no other vncviewer instance running, it happens also when I start vncviewer for the very first time after windows startup. Checked it though and there wasn't another instance running.
I'm not using a repeater only ssh tunnelling
I opened port 5900 at my router at home which isn't actually necessary when connecting via ssh. Will close the port and retest on monday but I doubt that this is the problem....

[Rudi De Vos]

For putty (SSL/SSH)you find several tutorial on the net.
But it should be the same manner with all openssh like software.

Are you sure the firewall allow access to this port (5900)
Some firewalls allow a few bits to be send before they close the port
-> stream broken.

Instead of the viewer you can also use telnet to test
telnet 5900
This should answer with rfbxxxxx

[anubisxl]

In the win 7 firewall, if you allow a program as an exception it means allow it to open and listen on any port it likes, so I think we can rule out a firewall fault.

Telnet answers:
RFB 003.008

[anubisxl]

I just found something:

there are basically two (different) setups people recommend:

Setup1:
Tunnel in Putty destination ip: localhost
server in VNCViewer: localhost:5999 (when you redirected 5999 to 5900)
proxy in VNCViewer: no entry

Setup1:
Tunnel in Putty destination ip: ip of remote pc where server is running
server in VNCViewer: no entry
proxy in VNCViewer: localhost

is so far only used setup1

the VNCViewer config shouldn't really make any difference, but specifying a port might... will check that

I don't see why I should choose the remote ip as destination but will give it a try as well

I'll spread the news on monday

thanks for your help so far

[anubisxl]

Well kind of embarassing, freesshd has a little button saying "allow port forwarding" tick this and it works.

Thanks for your help though

[Rudi De Vos]

If you have time.... a little howto would be handy for other users.

Then we would add it to the faq section to avoid that all your search and test effort get lost in the mass of forum messages.


Rudi

[Jules Fettu]

I've searched the forum extensively but have not found what the error

"Possible causes:
-Another user is already listening on this ID
-Bad Connection”

Specifically means.

Any ideas?