[SOLVED] Control or View Remote Desktop over a Network - VNCviewer

[cyclouno]

Hello guys..

@ Question
View and Control remote desktop over Internet or LAN

@ Reference
VNC viewer
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/index.html

@ Why? Scenario?
===I got a desktop pc at home running Ubuntu Hardy, which has access to Broadband - USES STATIC IP!

===I got another pc at office running Fedora sulphur - again with broadband access - USES DHCP - NO STATIC IP!

===Simply want to control my home pc from Office.

@ What did I do?
%%%On Home PC....ubuntu hardy%%%
===run $ vino-preferences
===allowed other computers to access my Home PC
===set a password
===checked "encrypt connection"
===set port no to 5900 - default
===fired-up vncserver $ vncserver
===it said I had to install vnc4server / xvnc4viewer / x11vnc / vino
===so installed all those packages, without any problem.. just like it said... via synaptic
===run $ vncserver
===gave a password & verified it
===checked if vnc is running.. so run $ pgrep vnc
===throwed 2 PID's - so finally vncserver is up & running

%%%On Office PC...fedora sulphur%%%
===Ran $ vncviewer
===entered host IP (static home PC ip)
===it says "Unable connect to socket: connection refused (111)"

@ what might be the problem?
===iptables (firewall)?
===tcp wrappers?? or missing some services??
===Since it said "111" - I started both NFS & Portmap service in fedora... (111 is portmap service port number).. should I do it in Ubuntu? & how?
===BTW.. how do I find open ports in Ubuntu... the $ nmap localhost doesn't exist...

[ChumleyEX]

yeah my first thought is the router/firewall.. If you use ssh you can tunnel to it and leave port 5900 closed. It works really well.

[cyclouno]

@chumleyEX
turned off firewall at both ends...
$ /etc/init.d/iptables stop
$ service iptables stop

No SSH.. still no results..

[ChumleyEX]

you don't have a router and also are you logged into the desktop on the ubuntu machine?

[cyclouno]

yap.. no router... jus modem + pc... & logged in !!

[cyclouno]

apparently.. I consider this thread solved since I found a parent thread on the same topic.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=272986

So many options now.. gotta try 1 by 1...