Failed to connect: connection refused (10061)

[Mick]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 20:45, Jeff Hignett wrote:

> Im still having difficulties trying to connect to my mac (OS X) using my XP
> machine. I am now receiving an error that says "Failed to connect:
> connection refused (10061)". I checked to make sure that the ports are both
> set to 5900 and they are.

Have you allowed incoming connections at the AppleMac firewall on port 5900?

> I tried to telnet port 5900 from my mac and it was unreachable. Im pretty
> new to this, so does that mean that 5900 is disabled? If so, how do I
> re-enable it?

How did you specify the address?
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Regards,
Mick

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