Hello Folks.
How are you?
I install xrdp on my Fedora 16 and I wan to connect to it from other machine but when I connect to it via rdesktop or VNC it show me that "Genome session failed", I removed Gnome and Install KDE.
I use VNC too and change startup file to :

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &


but not worked . I change twm to startkde but not worked. How can I fix it?

Thanks a lot.

Have you tried using team viewer?

I don't like it.
I want to use VNC.

A more obvious question is WHY you need VNC?? Remote systems management can easily be done with SSH, which is not only more secure, but faster. What can't you do with SSH than you can do with VNC?

Also, Fedora 16 is very old...the latest is 19, so upgrading may correct your issues right off the bat. And you also don't tell us what the other machine is running, or what errors you're seeing in the logs, so it's hard to diagnose an issue with no details. And have you followed the VNC installation guides? Tried a different VNC client, other than xrdp?

http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/...r-on-linux.php
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...r_desktop.html

I solved the error message but it show me black screen

Ok, since you came here for help, why don't you post your solution so that others can benefit from it?

And to ask again, WHY do you need VNC, when SSH is not only simpler to set up, but more secure and faster?

I can use SSH but it is not GUI and I want to view my desktop. I think it is enough.

You most certainly CAN run GUI applications over SSH using X forwarding. It's done all the time.

um, read my sig. there are 2 HOWTO guides that will help you with that problem. Also handling X over SSH is very simple. either connect via -Y or -X when you connect after enabling said feature in the remote systems sshd.conf

If you follow both of my SSH HOWTO guides to first setup ssh keys, then to setup ssh config file you will never have to worry about passing X between SSH.

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