tightVNC set-up with Fedora and WinXP pro..

sxa · 01-12-2004, 10:51 PM

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..

Quote:

[sanness@localhost sanness]$ Xvnc

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

I guess getting that fixed is the first step..

Could someone please help?

Marius2 · 01-13-2004, 06:43 AM

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

sxa · 01-13-2004, 07:53 AM

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..

DavidPhillips · 01-13-2004, 10:20 PM

I start mine like this..

vncserver

sxa · 01-14-2004, 12:45 PM

i do that and I get the same error..

DavidPhillips · 01-14-2004, 08:31 PM

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

vncserver :1

sxa · 01-15-2004, 05:10 PM

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..

DavidPhillips · 01-15-2004, 09:50 PM

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

like this

192.168.0.1:5901

sxa · 01-16-2004, 07:26 AM

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

bowbender · 01-16-2004, 11:08 AM

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.

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.

sxa · 01-16-2004, 09:08 PM

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

DavidPhillips · 01-16-2004, 09:35 PM

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

ort

you may try that.

sxa · 01-16-2004, 10:57 PM

I have no idea how to do that...

DavidPhillips · 01-28-2004, 07:42 PM

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

Any specific questions on it?

sxa · 01-29-2004, 09:30 PM

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...