abhishek@sl1:~$ vncserver New 'X' desktop is sl1:1 Starting applications specified in /home/students/abhishek/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/students/abhishek/.vnc/sl1:1.log now when i try to login from other machine i get this abhishek@abhi:~$ vncviewer sl1:1 VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Sep 10 2007 17:17:04 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Wed Oct 24 12:09:11 2007 main: unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111) abhishek@abhi:~$