Realvnc bypass auth connection failure

[barcajax at gmail.com (Mervyn Heng)]

Mr Moore, you are right about port 5900. It was not listening on my machine.
I can't put my finger on why its not listening though. Any pointers?

On 7/31/06, H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com> wrote:
> After launching the Metasploit module, open a command shell and run
> "netstat -na", make sure port 5900 is actually listening. Then try
> connecting to this as localhost/127.0.0.1, either with the GUI or using
> the vncviewer command line (vncviewer 127.0.0.1::5900). If this fails,
> try connecting manually with telnet or netcat. I can't reproduce that
> issue on the Metasploit test machines.
>
> -HD
>
> On Sunday 30 July 2006 20:07, Mervyn Heng wrote:
> > Tried doing the same using the exploit provided by Metasploit but with
> > no luck. Metasploit states that it is listening for VNC connections on
> > 0.0.0.0:5900 but when I used the VNC viewer by specifying localhost,
> > 127.0.0.1,  0.0.0.0 or the host OS IP, I keep getting a connection
> > error message. Already turned off the firewall on the virtual machine
> > and host OS... any ideas why I can't connect to the VNC server through
> > Metasploit as a proxy?
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