If not, come back with ALL the boring, but necessary, details of your network setup, and I'll do my best to help you further. sudo apt install tigervnc-standalone-server tigervnc-common tigervnc-xorg-extension tigervnc-viewer Now start the VNC server by running the vncserver command as a normal user. See your 'Office' modem / router's documentation for how to do this. To install TigerVNC server and other associated packages in Ubuntu, run the following command. You may need to open port(s) 5900-x on your modem / router at your 'desktop' PC location and forward them to the same ports on the LAN IP of your (office?) 'desktop / PC'. Most modern modem / routers are now configured by default to run a firewall (a 'good thing' for those running win) that, by defaut, refuses incoming connections. This may be the source of 'Connection Refused'. Some people have 'office' at home (in the same building, and connected to the same router, and on the same LAN), for other people 'office' is 12,000km away, but although it is still 'office' to them, the internet routing, and firewalling is more complicated.Īre your PCs all on the same LAN, or are they at different locations? If at different locations and your 'Desktop / Office' is accessed over the internet, you should look at the firewall that is probably running on your modem/router at the location your 'Desktop' is placed.

Some of these are perhaps the same machines. I am going to be pedantic, and boring, but I am confused: You refer to 'office', 'PC', 'Laptop' and 'Desktop'. After logging in to your EC2 instance using the terminal, enter the following commands to install the tools that will be required to run Ubuntu desktop : While installing VNC Server you’ll be required to setup a password for the server. Please confirm that this was the output from your desktop, not your laptop, as it seems your desktop is the one that is refusing connections. Let’s install Ubuntu Desktop and TightVNC on your EC2 instance.

You seem to be looking at the right things:įrom your post above, your firewall isn't doing anything (because there are no rules listed). Apologies for the slow reply, but I have been very busy with 'real life'.

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