I assume you started the VNC server, and connected to the same display with the viewer? Is the SL system running a firewall? Can you ssh to the SL system? On 06/26/2017 02:04 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! -- Miles O'Neal CAD Systems Engineer Cirrus Logic | cirrus.com | 1.512.851.4659