Re: [PLUG] Xvnc login howto

[Eugene Smiley <eugene@esmiley.net>]

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Michael F. Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:26, Eugene Smiley wrote:
>> - In a terminal window if I type 'vncviewer 192.168.1.101:0' or
>> 'vncviewer 192.168.1.101:1', I get "vncviewer: VNC server connection
>> closed".
>>
>> - On WinXP if I try to connect to 192.168.1.101, I get "Failed to
>> connect to listening VNC viewer" or nothing at all.
>
> Check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.  As you said, access to
> localhost works fine, so you might just be blocking other hosts.

It would seem that in spite of setting host.allow to "ALL:192.168.1."
that Mandrakes default host.deny was overriding it since it had an
EXCEPT clause. ("ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.:DENY") once I changed it to
"ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127., 192.168.1.:DENY" everything worked.

Now, I am finding that Mandrake is automatically modifying host.deny
to append "ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.:DENY". Anyone know where this is coming
from so that I can shut it off?


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