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I'm pretty much BRAND new to Linux - I installed Mandrake 10 and as part of that I installed TightVNC. I hope after this question is answered I'll be busy learning linux and won't be asking a question everyday....
I'm used to haveing a VNC server control panel and a VNC Viewer Aplication... it seems that all I have is a TightVNV icon in linux.
When I click it I get a shell (looks like dos to me) - And an 'X' window that is titled ServerDialog
No matter what I put in that box I get a response of: Konsole Shell Exited with a status of 1
I guess this is as good a time as any to ask another question - MAN pages - Are they really that painful to read? or am I missing some application that runs them? they certainly apear to contain some kind of formating info but they always just come up in a notepad type app.
Is there somewhere I can go to learn about VNC in Linux? this first step is pretty crucial to me as I'd like to be able to VNC into my Linux box as well as VNC to windows boxes from my linux box...
IIRC you have to put the IP address of the remote box in that little dialog box. With VNC the remote box you want to run on your box is the "server" and you are the "client". You can use the regular VNC settings window to set everything up for TightVNC with mandrake and then just put in the IP of the remote box when you run Tight VNC. You should be prompted for your password that you set up in VNC after you enter the IP then you should be home free.
Originally posted by kilgoretrout IIRC you have to put the IP address of the remote box in that little dialog box. With VNC the remote box you want to run on your box is the "server" and you are the "client". You can use the regular VNC settings window to set everything up for TightVNC with mandrake and then just put in the IP of the remote box when you run Tight VNC. You should be prompted for your password that you set up in VNC after you enter the IP then you should be home free.
OK got it halfway working - I was trying to put in my machine name- not the IP, put in the IP and it 'works'
Oh and can't use the number pad enter button.
Linux can't broadcast for a machine name? - or it's not setup that way by default?
Second half - I'd like to VNC *into* my linux box - but I can't seem to find the server portion of VNC?
Linux can't broadcast for a machine name? - or it's not setup that way by default?
You need to run nmbd ( a component of Samba) in order to get Linux to respond to netbios name resolution broadcasts.
Alternatively you can use the hosts/lmhosts file in Windows.
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Second half - I'd like to VNC *into* my linux box - but I can't seem to find the server portion of VNC?
I'm not exactly a Linux n00b (however, I have a LOT to learn), but I'm going to bump this, and ask a question. I'm using Mandrake 10 Community, and I try to run that vncserver script, but there's one thing that I HATE about it. I can't elect to run a different WM (say, IceWM or Fluxbox - I think some people that would prefer Ice will be using it, but I use Flux) than KDE. This box is WAY too old to run KDE (I've tried - it's an old P233MMX, with 96MB RAM). FWIW, here's my ~/.vnc/xstartup:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# (c) 2000-2002 MandrakeSoft
# $Id: xinitrc-xinitrc,v 1.2 2002/09/10 05:53:43 flepied Exp $
# Set a background here because it's not done anymore
# in Xsesion for non root users
if [ "`whoami`" != root ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#21449C"
fi
exec /etc/X11/Xsession $*
/etc/X11/Xsession:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Modification for Mandrake Linux by Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandraksoft.com>
#
# $Id: Xsession,v 1.44 2004/02/05 10:48:48 flepied Exp $
# read the user (~/.i18n) or system-wide (/etc/sysconfig/i18n) i18n settings
. /etc/profile.d/10lang.sh
if [ -z "$GDMSESSION" ]; then
# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER" "/tmp/xses-$USER"
do
if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
then
chmod 600 "$errfile"
exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
break
fi
done
fi
# Mandrake default background
if [ "`whoami`" = root ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#B20003"
IS_ROOT=1
else
IS_ROOT=
# Load the color only when not called from gdm/kdm
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#21449C"
fi
fi
xsetroot -cursor_name watch
AGENT=$(type -p ssh-agent)
if [ -x "$AGENT" -a -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
if [ -r $HOME/.ssh/identity -o -r $HOME/.ssh2/identification -o -r $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa -o -r $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa ]; then
SSH_AGENT="$AGENT --"
fi
fi
# clean up after xbanner
if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/freetemp ]; then
freetemp
fi
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
userresources2=$HOME/.Xdefaults
sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $userresources2 ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources2
fi
if [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard ]; then
/etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard
fi
if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] ; then
# we need to find a browser on this system
BROWSER=`which mozilla 2> /dev/null`
if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] || [ ! -e "$BROWSER" ] ; then
# not found yet
BROWSER=
fi
fi
if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] ; then
# we need to find a browser on this system
BROWSER=`which netscape 2> /dev/null`
if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] || [ ! -e "$BROWSER" ] ; then
# not found yet
BROWSER=
fi
fi
if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] ; then
# we need to find a browser on this system
BROWSER=`which lynx 2> /dev/null`
if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] || [ ! -e "$BROWSER" ] ; then
# not found yet
BROWSER=
else
BROWSER="xvt -e lynx"
fi
fi
export BROWSER
export HELP_BROWSER="$BROWSER"
# now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment
if [ $# = 1 ]; then
DESKTOP=$1
else
# use default DESKTOP from config file
# users may want to choose their own desktop
# even when x-session is started by startx command.
# -- Jaegeum --
if [ -f $HOME/.desktop ]; then
. $HOME/.desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
# fix .qtrc for Japanese
if [ "$LANG" = ja_JP ]; then
[ ! -d $HOME/.qt ] && mkdir $HOME/.qt
if [ ! -r $HOME/.qt/qtrc ] || ! grep -q '[General]' $HOME/.qt/qtrc; then
cat >> $HOME/.qt/qtrc <<EOF
[General]
XIMInputStyle=Over The Spot
EOF
elif ! grep -q XIMInputStyle $HOME/.qt/qtrc; then
rm -f $HOME/.qt/qtrc.$$
sed "s/\[General\]/[General]\nXIMInputStyle=Over The Spot/" < $HOME/.qt/qtrc > $HOME/.qt/qtrc.$$
mv -f $HOME/.qt/qtrc.$$ $HOME/.qt/qtrc
fi
fi
### Launch an XIM input server if needed
# it must be after definition of DESKTOP variable; but before any
# program that may want user input
if [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/XIM ]; then
. /etc/X11/xinit/XIM
fi
### Launch first time wizard if needed
if [ -z "$IS_ROOT" -a ! -e $HOME/.drakfw ] && type drakfw > /dev/null 2>&1 && touch $HOME/.drakfw > /dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ -x /etc/X11/xinit.d/numlock ]; then
/etc/X11/xinit.d/numlock
fi
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
exec $SSH_AGENT drakfw
fi
# run scripts in /etc/X11/xinit.d
for i in /etc/X11/xinit.d/* ; do
[ -d $i ] && continue
# Don't run ??foo.{rpmsave,rpmorig,rpmnew,~} scripts
[ "${i%.rpmsave}" != "${i}" ] && continue
[ "${i%.rpmorig}" != "${i}" ] && continue
[ "${i%.rpmnew}" != "${i}" ] && continue
[ "${i%\~}" != "${i}" ] && continue
if [ -x $i ]; then
if [ "${DESKTOP}" = default ]; then
SESSION=$(/usr/sbin/chksession -F)
else
SESSION=${DESKTOP}
fi
if grep -q "# to be sourced" $i; then
. $i "${SESSION}"
else
$i "${SESSION}" &
fi
fi
done
if [ -n "$DESKTOP" ]; then
case $DESKTOP in
failsafe)
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
type -p rxvt > /dev/null >& 2 && exec $SSH_AGENT rxvt -geometry 80x24-0-0
type -p xterm > /dev/null >& 2 && exec $SSH_AGENT xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
type -p xvt > /dev/null >& 2 && exec $SSH_AGENT xvt
type -p twm > /dev/null >& 2 && exec $SSH_AGENT twm
;;
default)
;;
*)
if type -p "$DESKTOP" > /dev/null; then
exec $SSH_AGENT /bin/sh -c "$DESKTOP"
else
exec $SSH_AGENT /bin/sh -c "$(/usr/sbin/chksession -x=$DESKTOP)"
fi
;;
esac
fi
# otherwise, take default action
if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ]; then
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
exec $SSH_AGENT "$HOME/.xsession"
elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
exec $SSH_AGENT "$HOME/.Xclients"
fi
# We may try with chksession
if [ -x /usr/sbin/chksession ];then
#get the first available
SESSION=$(/usr/sbin/chksession -F)
[ -n "$SESSION" -a "$SESSION" != Default ] && exec $SSH_AGENT sh -c "$(/usr/sbin/chksession -x=$SESSION)"
fi
# Argh! Nothing good is installed. Fall back to icewm
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm ];then
exec $SSH_AGENT /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
else
# gosh, neither icewm is available;
# fall back to failsafe settings
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
xvt -geometry +0+50 &
if [ -x "$BROWSER" -a -f /usr/doc/HTML/index.html ]; then
$BROWSER /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
fi
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-light ];then
exec $SSH_AGENT icewm-light
elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ];then
exec $SSH_AGENT twm
else
exec $SSH_AGENT xsm
fi
fi
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I'm pretty much BRAND new to Linux - I installed Mandrake 10 and as part of that I installed TightVNC. I hope after this question is answered I'll be busy learning linux and won't be asking a question everyday....
