lost my connection

2007-09-23 Thread Sigrid Macdonald
Hi everyone, I have remote access to my sister's computer. She lives in California and is visually impaired. She had a power blackout several weeks ago and her computer went down. Since then, I've lost my remote access. I get an error message that looks like this: Unable to connect to remote

RE: lost my connection

2007-09-23 Thread Ryo Koyama
Sigrid Hi, it could be a number of factors, but I'm guessing if she's here in California (as am i) that it's an issue with the IP address changing. You could configure using a DDNS service, to try prevent this in the future. Alternatively, the software from my company also keeps association - re

Re: connection problems

2007-09-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sunday 23 September 2007, you wrote: > Hello John, > > > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -localhost > > vncconfig -nowin > > > > and here's what I get when I do that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] john_old]$ ./vserver > > > > New 'slave1:1 (john)' desktop is slave1:1 > > >

Re: connection problems

2007-09-23 Thread Constantin Kaplinsky
Hello John, > John Aldrich wrote: > 2007-09-23 15:33:26 Opening forwarded connection to localhost:5901 > 2007-09-23 15:33:26 Forwarded connection refused by server: > Administratively prohibited [open failed] I've just tried similar configuration. I've started Xvnc (TightVNC 1.3.9) l