tightVNC set-up with Fedora and WinXP pro..
 

Okay I installed TightVNC on both my PC and Linux Boxes.. I tried setting it up, but when I run 'Xvnc' here is what I get..

I guess getting that fixed is the first step..

Could someone please help?

What happens if you remove the file and start vncserver again? If
you can't get it to run, give vnc a try instead. BTW I had problems with
tightvnc on my SuSE 9.0 too. I installed vnc then, which didn't work
with the standard installation procedure, as it couldn't replace Xvnc.
After I did this manually, everything worked just fine.

HTH

I am at school right now, I will work on that when I get home. If I don't get it working its no big deal, I was just looking around for software and found tightVNC..

I start mine like this..


vncserver

i do that and I get the same error..

Normally it will take the next available display. You can try like this...


vncserver :1

Okay, so I can get desktop to connect to my laptop, but not vise-versa... the laptop that I want to use to connect to the desktop runs Windows XP..

when you run vncviewer on XP you need to give the port that the server is using.

like this


192.168.0.1:5901

The XP machine just froze up, I tried XXX.XXX.X.XX:5900 and it had a connection error.. before I could try XXX.XXX.X.XXX:0 it froze

don't put the full port number in just the instance on the server.

if you satarted vnc with
vncserver :1

then connect with xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1

This has always worked for me.

:cool:

PS I have found that tight VNC runs a little hinky on XP try the real VNC viewer.
it will connect to a tight VNC server just fine they are compatible.

I seem to be have the same problem in RealVNC..

I use ssh to forward the port to my windows machine on a local port and then connect to localhost:port

you may try that.

I have no idea how to do that...

It's all explained on the vnc site as securing vnc with ssh.

Any specific questions on it?

I will check that out when I get back with that project.. I have moved on with other things, mostly for school, and I am looking of for a laptop.. so as you can see I will be busy for awhile

Thanks for all your help...