VNC Server on Debian Buster 10

[vvarrior]

I'm struggling connecting to my new Linux box that I just got done installing with VNC Viewer on my windows laptop.
I am able to SSH in but the connection is refused with VNC. I feel like there is a permission issue or something small and simple I'm missing. Here is the VNC config log:

Fri Sep 6 19:47:30 2019
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on local interface(s), port 5901
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0

Thank you

[andre@home]

This may help?
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ssh-to-connec ... or-windows

If you do not get it work:
Instead of VNC I mostly run Teamviewer for Linux & Windows 10.
Sometimes the installation under Linux needs extra attention.
Works great.

[vvarrior]

VNC works great on Raspbian so I figured it would work just as good on Debian. I've attempted to setup a tunnel on SSH 5901->127.0.0.1:5901 then trying to connect to 127.0.0.1 but the result is the same. I'm not sure how to test if the VNC server is actually running, but its in ps -aux and the log file shows it is listening on 5901.

[pylkko]

Are you running a firewall on it?

[trinidad]

Sorry but I'm not sure which way you are trying to go here. Is Debian the client machine or is Windows? If Debian is the client use Remmina and an SSH tunnel with RDP. If Windows is the client use SSH X11 forwarding and a nested Xserver (Xming) on the Windows machine. That is if you want a GUI desktop of the remote machine.

TC

[andre@home]

VNC works great on Raspbian so I figured it would work just as good on Debian

Ok... but RPi, I have it too... you must enable something...:

Setup screen: see picture below.
5 Interfacing Options
<enter>
Go to P3 VNC Enable/Disable graphical remote
<enter>,
choose Enable
<enter>
and then
<ok>

So you have to dig out in what file setting this needs to happen in your Debian system.
https://www.google.nl/search?client=ope ... 8&oe=UTF-8