VNCSERVER Error message
 

Hello,

I have mandrake 10.1. When I try to start VNCserver over SSH, here is what I get:

"# vncserver
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "Linux:8" in "add" command

New 'X' desktop is Linux:8

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/Linux:8.log"

Therefore I can not run the vncserver and as a result I can not ru VNCServer over SSH.

Am I doing something wrong ? What should I do?

Thanks

looks to me like it started fine.

You received a newdesktop named :8

You are probably getting the error because of the xhost authentication. Maybe try issuing xhost + before you try starting the next server occurance.

If you want vnc to be secure, you will probably want to do a little port forwarding with ssh.

Thank you for your reply!!

Well, yes, but it shows the error:

"xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "Linux:8" in "add" command"

I don't know what this means.

Thanks

It sounds to me like you have 8 instances of the vncserver running now (unless you've killed off those other 7).

Did you try issuing xhost + on the server side before starting the vncserver?

Hello!

Thanks for the tip! No I had not tried it! I will do it!

Thanks