From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 23:46:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDD016A41A for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:46:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from mx-outbound01.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [205.210.42.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C78C13C45B for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:46:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (69-12-173-117.static.humboldt1.com [69.12.173.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx-outbound01.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F55D8136 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:46:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (slider.shadypond.com [192.168.1.11]) by slider.shadypond.com (postoffice) with ESMTP id E6B1CB65A3 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:46:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Pollywog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:46:10 +0000 References: <200709020222.21000.mchauber@gmx.net> <20070910181001.R5423@fledge.watson.org> <200709102342.44043.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <200709102342.44043.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709102346.10301.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:46:16 -0000 On Monday 10 September 2007 23:42:43 Pollywog wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2007 22:21:58 doug wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Pollywog wrote: > > > > I am using tightvnc-1.2.9_1 on FreeBSD and the windows versions of > > tightvnc on win2k and windows XP Pro. On FreeBSD I only have used > > vncviewer running the server on the winders boxes. I am using FreeBSD > > 6.2. The only issue I had was the screen quality with XP Pro which went > > away with the latest version of the tightvnc windows software. On Mac > > OS/X I am running Vine VNC from Redstone Software. > > > > The thing that I have not tried is going from windows/mac to FreeBSD, > > using ssh for that. Is that the issue for you? > > The issue for me was connecting from FreeBSD to FreeBSD, but it is working > now. The problem was that on the FreeBSD laptop from which I was > connecting, the lo0 interface was not actually up. If I set the IP address > 127.0.0.1 to lo0 and then tried to connect via SSH, it worked. I fixed the > problem with a small edit of /etc/rc.conf My 6.2 system never had this problem, only the laptop running FreeBSD 7 had the problem. It is possible I messed something up during the initial install or when I updated.