Setting Up VNC - Connection actively refused

[fosterb]

I've just followed these instructions to get vncserver setup on my raspberry pi:

http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server

I've also installed TightVNC viewer on my window 7 pc in order to connect to the pi, but having entered the ip address of the pi into TightVNC, all I get is the error message "no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".

I think it's up and running properly on the raspberry pi as it now asks me on login to enter a password to access my desktops, which I have done and I get "New "X" desktop is raspberrypi:1".

I thought it might be a firewall issue so I turned off Windows firewall and the same issue happens. What else could be wrong?

Thanks.

[fosterb]

Sorry, I'm a muppet.

I needed to add the :1 to the end of the IP address, working fine now.

[pishark]

It happened with me too! And I put :1 at the end of the ip and it still doesn't work! Please help!

[animoose]

I know this is a very old topic, but I'll add this note in case it helps others in future. I installed VNC on my Pi, checked it worked. Then followed the instruction for having it run at startup (http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... ccess/vnc/), and got the "actively refused" error.

I think this is because the VNC viewer is trying to connect as root, and there is no password set up for it. The password that is set up during installation is for the user who ran the installation. I have found two ways round this. You can create a vnc password for the root account by running
sudo vncpasswd
The problem is that when you connect with VNC you are then running as root, and this gives great power, with which comes great (and possibly undesirable) responsibility.

A better answer is to follow the instructions at http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server, which tell you how to start VNC at log on, but only for a specific user.

[FTrevorGowen]

FWIW, since I didn't want a VNC server running on start-up, I used a modified approach from that in penguintutor's tutorial thus:
http://www.cpmspectrepi.webspace.virgin ... tVNC_Usage
Of course there are other VNC servers than tightvnc and, like many Linux/Unix tasks, several ways of achieving similar goals - use what works best for you.
Trev.