VNC on port 5801 doesn't work after updating to 11 SP1

If I type :5801 in to a browser, it shows Remote Desktop at the top of the browser and “Network Error: could not connect to” in the area where it used to show the login box. How do I fix this? It work fine earlier today before I upgraded to SP1. It was SLES 11 before the upgrade. I double checked yast > Remote Administration and it says that it is enabled and if I disable it, I get a page cannot be displayed error in the browser which is how it should be.

Hi
Is the service enabled in YaST Firewall?


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The firewall is disabled. Do I still need to enable it on the firewall?

On 29/02/2012 14:54, spashia wrote:
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The firewall is disabled. Do I still need to enable it on the firewall?[/color]

No, if the firewall is disabled you don’t need to enable VNC to be
allowed through it … unless of course you will eventually enable the
firewall (at which point you’ll probably have forgotten you need to
allow VNC!).

HTH.

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spashia wrote:
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If I type :5801 in to a browser, it shows Remote Desktop at
the top of the browser and “Network Error: could not connect to” in
the area where it used to show the login box. How do I fix this? It
work fine earlier today before I upgraded to SP1. It was SLES 11
before the upgrade. I double checked yast > Remote Administration and
it says that it is enabled and if I disable it, I get a page cannot
be displayed error in the browser which is how it should be.[/color]

Does this help?
TID 7009718 After upgrade/update no longer able to establish a
connection through VNC.


Kevin Boyle - Knowledge Partner
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I had the same problem on port 5901, the TID 7009718 solved it.

Thank you from Italy

Marco

I ended up following the steps on TID 7003097 and set it up so I can access the server through the TightVNC viewer over port 5900 instead of the java enabled browser and port 5801. I’ll save that TID that you recommended just in case I would need it in the future though. Thanks for the help.