Installing VNC

Lampei · 07-02-2003, 12:55 PM

Thanks all (especially rwilbur), for saving me from *many* hours of agonizing over this

Lampei · 07-07-2003, 11:17 AM

OK, I've developed a new problem

I'm running RedHat 9 w/ Ximian desktop.

I got VNC working correctly (with GUI desktop), by typing vncserver upon boot up.

I then went into my personal settings and added vncserver to my startup programs. The only problem is that by doing it this way, when I try to connect, it shows the terminal window with a grey background.

To make sure this was what was causing the problem, I removed vncserver from the startup programs, rebooted, logged in, opened a terminal, typed in vncserver, everything works again.

Any ideas what I need to alter to see the GUI desktop from boot up (without me having to open a terminal window and type in vncserver) Thanks.

scottpioso · 07-07-2003, 11:19 AM

Hey, you don't need to go into the terminal to run it, just go to the run command and type vncviewer. That works great for me

Lampei · 07-07-2003, 11:55 AM

Sorry for being unclear. I'm accessing the linux box from my work PC (both are at my office, just in different rooms). So, rather than running back and forth from my regular PC, I've got VNCviewer setup on my Win2K machine and do all installation/playing that way.

I'm pretty sure the problem is somewhere in the way vncserver is started on boot up.

scottpioso · 07-07-2003, 11:56 AM

check the install on Linux. You may not have done it properly

Lampei · 07-07-2003, 12:09 PM

To what exactly are you referring when you say I may not have done "it" properly?

Lampei · 07-09-2003, 11:11 AM

Anyone have any other ideas?

planetkaos · 07-30-2003, 09:22 PM

Hi, I'm new to this forum, and linux for that matter. I have Linux RedHat 8.0, I have installed VNC and I can connect to my server, however when I put in my password it just comes up with a grey screen...nothing else. I've clicked, typed, punched, and kicked, yet I can't get anything but this grey screen. As I'm running this over a 100mb/s network I'd like to be able to have a KDE session, can someone plz help me out? Here is my startup file:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ]
&& xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
exec /usr/bin/startkde &

scottpioso · 07-30-2003, 09:29 PM

Hi there to Lampei

I didn't get your reply until just now, sorry. Anyway, what I mean is, first, did you install the RPM or the source? If you installed the RPM, I find it more useful to install from the command line.

What I would start out by doing is uninstalling VNC and reinstalling a fresh copy.

If you don't know how to execute the command from the shell prompt to install an RPM, send me a message and I'll tell you how.

master · 03-26-2004, 10:08 AM

hello im running redhat9 iv just installed vnc now im trying to log on to my winxp comp but i keep getting an error message saying " connection timed out" from a terminal i type "vncserver"can any 1 help iv allready read everything from vnc home page thanks