vnc connection

I have been trying (mainly as an experiment, but because I later want to
connect to a remote machine) setting up a VNC connection between two
computers on a wired local network.

Vine Server (on a Powerbook) and Chicken of the VNC (on an Intel
machine), both running Tiger, were the server and client.

I don't seem to be able to make a connection, either from Chicken to
Vine Server, or by a reverse connection from Vine Server with Chicken
listening in.

Chicken can see the Powerbook in its list of servers.

I thought it might be a firewall issue, so turned off the firewall on
both machines, but to no effect.

The logs show,

on the client machine

Chicken is running in Little Endian

while on the machine running Vine Server the log says

Vine server is running in Big Endian


Error connecting to reverse host
error resolving reverse host; Bad hints

Any suggestions on how to get it working?
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danspam RemoveThis @f2s.com (Daniel Cohen) wrote:

> I have been trying (mainly as an experiment, but because I later want to
> connect to a remote machine) setting up a VNC connection between two
> computers on a wired local network.
>
> Vine Server (on a Powerbook) and Chicken of the VNC (on an Intel
> machine), both running Tiger, were the server and client.
>
> I don't seem to be able to make a connection, either from Chicken to
> Vine Server, or by a reverse connection from Vine Server with Chicken
> listening in.
>
> Chicken can see the Powerbook in its list of servers.
>
> I thought it might be a firewall issue, so turned off the firewall on
> both machines, but to no effect.
>
> The logs show,
>
> on the client machine
>
> Chicken is running in Little Endian

Yes, it's Intel architecture
>
> while on the machine running Vine Server the log says
>
> Vine server is running in Big Endian
Yes, it's PPC architecture
>
>
> Error connecting to reverse host
> error resolving reverse host; Bad hints

Are you using IP addresses or host names to connect?
>
> Any suggestions on how to get it working?

If you intend to connect to a remote machine, you need to think about
security from the start. Have a look at
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.comm/msg/756729059283f877>

I've found it more reliable to specify the port number in the "Host" box
(e.g. remote:5900) and leave the "Display" box empty.

Other than that, VNC is pretty straightforward.

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