How can I reverse connect with vncconnect or vncconfig with ubuntu as the server?

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Published on 2010-03-12T00:18:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 0:37 UTC
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On a windows machine I am running: "listening VNC viewer"

From a Ubuntu machine, I need to reverse connect to the windows machine but it does not seem to be working.

I was able to make it work between 2 windows machines, but I need it to work with Ubuntu as the server as well. I tried vncconnect -display $DISPLAY 192.168.1.134:5500 and nothing happens.

So instead I tried vncconfig but I get the message : "No VNC extension on display :0.0" Any ideas? If this is the wrong site just send me a comment I'll close the question.

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