Network routing mystery; ssh works, vncviewer doesnt

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:19:33AM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> 
>>I'm having a problem with VNC that I've been unable to figure out. I've 
>>got a number of remote machines connecting to my LAN over OpenVPN. I can 
>>ping them and ssh to them successfully, but when I try to connect with 
>>vncviewer, I get an error
>>
>> main:        unable to connect to host: No route to host (113)
>>
>>The routes look fine, and if they really were broken then ssh wouldn't 
>>be working. What else could cause vnc to fail with that error?
> 
> 
> A firewall blocking VNC, maybe? As an alternate route, you might try
> tunnelling VNC over one of your ssh connections.
> 
> Nathan

I get the same problem when I try to connect to a remoet Windows 
machine, which I need to do for the users in the field that I support. I 
can't ssh into their XP laptops, so ssh tunnels won't solve the problem.

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