Re: iPad raw vnc connection not working

Non-standard ports should work without a hitch. If it's on port 5901,
you will need to give it the whole port designation 5901 instead of
simply "1" like many VNC clients do.

Dean

On Apr 5, 2:53 pm, Alex <nielsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to connect to a server on standard port 5900. Turns out
> that the server was experiencing issues at the time.
>
> I am now having trouble connecting to a host with a non-standard port.
> The LED is red for this host. The error simply indicates that the
> device cannot connect. I have confirmed that this host is functioning
> properly and accessed it from a computer on the same network as my
> iPad.
>
> Is there a trick to using a non standard port for vnc?
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> On Apr 5, 1:52 pm, Dean <canada...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > What's the color of the virtual LED?  If it's red, then for whatever
> > reason (host look up, network access, etc.) it can't get to that host/
> > port.  If it's green then there may be another configuration issue.
> > Let me know what you find.
>
> > Dean
>
> > On Apr 5, 11:59 am, Alex <nielsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am attempting to connect to a vnc server with my iPad. The server
> > > uses the default port 5900.
>
> > > When I attempt to connect, I have to wait forever and then I get an
> > > error: Can't connect to vnc server on localhost port 5900. I have
> > > configured the connection as a raw vnc connection and have confirmed
> > > that my host name is not localhost. Is there a fix for this?

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