Hi,
download/install nmap for windows and scan your SL 6.9 box and see if 
the VNC server port is visible to your client.

If you log on the SL box, you can check, if the vnc runs eg by:
netstat -tulpn | grep -i vnc


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On 06/26/2017 09:04 PM, Stan Orlov wrote:
> Greetings - this is my first post :)
> 
> I have a brand new SL 6.9 running in a virtual machine on a VMware server. It has Tiger VNC 1.1.0-24.el6 to which I want to connect with VNC Viewer 6.0.3 from my Windows 7 workstation. When I try, the VNC Viewer tells me "The connection was refused by the computer".
> 
> I read different forums and tried editing '/etc/sysconfig/vncservers', etc., but the result is the same.  Being a total newbie to SL, I would really appreciate your advice!
>