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Old 12-29-2008, 12:24 PM   #1
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Hi Guys,

I just enabled remote administration on a OpenSuse File/print server. My question is that when I connect to the server on top of the VNC viewer screen it says nobody's X11 desktop (hostname:1). Is this normal? I'm mostly intrigued because it says nobody's X11.
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Old 12-29-2008, 05:32 PM   #2
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Sounds like vnc server is running as the user nobody
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Old 12-29-2008, 08:19 PM   #3
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that's possible because I'm connecting from a W$ndows box to the SuSe server and as you know VNC for windows doesn't require a user name just a password. It makes sense now.
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Old 12-29-2008, 09:43 PM   #4
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yes it is normal on opensuse vnc server runs as nobody
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Old 12-30-2008, 12:56 PM   #5
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Thanks Tom!
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