It's probably not a good idea to open 5800 or 5900 onto the internet. I would suggest you install ssh/sshd. From the remote PC, you can run putty that can be configured to open a piggyback port. Example, I use putty at work to connect to my RH firewall at home. At the same time, putty listens on port 5999 on my work pc. Any connection on that port is mirrored to port 5900 on my laptop at home behind the firewall. Much safer. > Its not an answer to your question, but keep in mind that VNC also > requires port 5900+display to work. The 5800+display port is only the > applet viewer. > > Jay > > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:54, Justin Haaheim wrote: >> I'm trying to set up my firewall to allow incoming connections on port >> 5801 (remote desktop stuff). In red hat 8, i've tried using the >> "security" utility, but when I go to save and exit, it doesn't save >> the information. I'll go back into the utility and it will all be >> reset. Is there a file I can edit to change this information, or a >> better way to go about this (or does anybody know if there's a fix >> for this bug)? >> >> thanks >> justin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list