Recommend a Solution for Broken Fedora Remote Desktop

thund3rstruck · 08-22-2013, 12:04 PM

Upgraded to Fedora 19 a few weeks ago and now remote access is broken. Every connection from any remote OS (or local) reports this message:

Code:

# testing locally
$ vncviewer 127.0.0.1

TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.3.0 (20130724)
Built on Jul 24 2013 at 16:42:04
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.

Thu Aug 22 12:49:21 2013
 CConn:       connected to host 127.0.0.1 port 5900
 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.7
 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.7
 CConnection: No matching security types
 CConn:       No matching security types

* Started with Settings > Sharing
* Enabled screen sharing
* Turned on all settings

I heard about a bug in Fedora where F19 ignores the gnome configuration and settings have to be applied at the dbus so I did that:

Code:

# gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false

This had no effect on the 'No matching security types' error, so I opened the native dbus

Code:

# dconf-editor
Navigated to org.gnome.desktop.remote-access

Checked 'require-encryption', 'enabled' and several others settings and no go.

It appears that remote access to F19 is straight up broken.

Anyone recommend a functional remote desktop server I can install on this machine and be done with this problem?

PECONET009 · 08-22-2013, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thund3rstruck

Upgraded to Fedora 19 a few weeks ago and now remote access is broken. Every connection from any remote OS (or local) reports this message:

Code:

# testing locally
$ vncviewer 127.0.0.1

TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.3.0 (20130724)
Built on Jul 24 2013 at 16:42:04
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.

Thu Aug 22 12:49:21 2013
 CConn:       connected to host 127.0.0.1 port 5900
 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.7
 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.7
 CConnection: No matching security types
 CConn:       No matching security types

* Started with Settings > Sharing
* Enabled screen sharing
* Turned on all settings

I heard about a bug in Fedora where F19 ignores the gnome configuration and settings have to be applied at the dbus so I did that:

Code:

# gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false

This had no effect on the 'No matching security types' error, so I opened the native dbus

Code:

# dconf-editor
Navigated to org.gnome.desktop.remote-access

Checked 'require-encryption', 'enabled' and several others settings and no go.

It appears that remote access to F19 is straight up broken.

Anyone recommend a functional remote desktop server I can install on this machine and be done with this problem?

Sometimes it easy to miss out on the ip addresses.

Also check your firewall configuration just to make sure that everything is checked out OK.

thund3rstruck · 08-22-2013, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PECONET009

Also check your firewall configuration just to make sure that everything is checked out OK.

I've disabled the firewall for testing

Code:

systemctl stop firewalld.service

Prior to shutting down the firewall I added a route to allow inbound connections

Code:

/etc/sysconfig/iptables
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT

This appears to be a known bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981984
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ows-vnc-client

That's why I'm asking if someone can recommend a solution where I can jetisson this broken gnome VNC implementation and go with a remote-desktop server product that works.