[Techtalk] vnc

[WolfRyder]

Try this

Don't run vnc as root and just type in vncserver

A suggestion from the guru @ my house (no, not me)

Wolfie


At 04:52 AM 10/5/02 +0100, /dev/null wrote:
>hi all
>
>i'm having trouble getting vnc to work over wifi....
>i have two machines communicating point to point, one running windows
>(192.168.0.4) the other running linux & samba (192.168.0.3)
>i've got the vnc server app installed on both.... according to the
>wonderful Marcel Gagne's book 'Linux Systems Administration', im
>supposed to do
>
>vncserver host:session_number
>
>i've set up DNS in the windows client to be hostname onyx on domain
>iriXx.org, so in theory it should be onyx.iriXx.org... and i should be
>able to use the alias 'onyx' from my linux machine which is
>hamish.iriXx.org ... but im getting this:
>
>[root at hamish miriam]# vncserver onyx:0
>
>usage: vncserver [:<number>] [-name <desktop-name>] [-depth <depth>]
>                  [-geometry <width>x<height>]
>                  [-pixelformat rgbNNN|bgrNNN]
>                  <Xvnc-options>...
>
>        vncserver -kill <X-display>
>
>and the same result when i use the ip address instead of alias. i also
>can't connect through a browser.... does anyone have any idea what im
>doing wrong? its my first go at this, so its likely i've missed
>something vital....
>
>thanx
>
>m
>
>
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