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Hello everyone. Thank you for having this forum available to us complete noobs out here.

This is how much of a noob I am, I installed my first Linux setup today with your awesome Media server tut. Everything went without a hitch until I reached the Tight VNC install part.
I have a Windows 7 x64 ultimate os that I'm trying to see my new media server 10.04.4 on. I just keep getting the
So I went through this entire forum and found that others have had my problem but their solutions didnt work for me. I would certainly appreciate alittle help on this noobish problem.
oh yea I saw you ask for the .vnc/xstartup file. Here is mine:

Thanks in advance

Hi there and welcome to the forums

The error message to me looks like TightVNC can't even see your server. I wonder whether this is a firewall problem? Have you tried, as a test, disabling the firewall and any antivirus software on your desktop?

I would say try using the server's IP address in TightVNC to see whether that makes a difference but the fact that you can get on the server using Putty tells me that's not the issue.

Ian.

Thanks for the reply Ian!

Yes I have tried it with both Windows Firewall and Microsoft Security Essentials disabled to no avail.
And with trying the Ip of the server in VNC I get this error:

Any other Ideas I can try?

Hi,

Are you sure you're putting the desktop number after the servername/ip address in the tightvnc connection dialog box? For example: 192.168.1.126:1

Ian.

Thank you so much Ian!!!!!! I didn't think about the desktop number being relevant when inputting the ip address. But It certainly was!!!! It popped right up with that minor oversight! Thanks again Ian!!!

Cool, glad to hear it's working.

Ian.