Hello, i'm a linux newbie using Fedora 1 on a 550 Mhz P III with 256 mb memory. I want to run vnc server on my machine, i have it already installed but when i type

>#vncserver

i get the following output:

VNC Server Enterprise Edition 4.1.8 - built Sep 29 2005 16:16:21
Copyright 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "didem:1" in "add" command
Error: could not run xauth

where "didem" is the computer name.

Can this be an installation issue?
A google search on xauth didn't work so any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Make sure you have this rpm installed -- it's the xauth rpm for fedora core 1

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

also you may have to do an `xhost +localhost` or something similar in order to allow the vnc server to connect to the x-server.

Hope that helps

Thanks, but it seems that i already have xauth installed, any more suggestions?
In case it helps, my /etc/hosts file looks like the following:

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks in advance

Does your xserver run on :1 or :0 by default?? if it is :0 try running `vncserver :0` also make sure that it is allowed to connect with the xhost command..

also check the environment variable $DISPLAY to see what it is set to (if it's not set or if it is wrong set it with `export DISPLAY=:0.0` and then try the vncserver command again.

Thanks sshoemaker, i have solved the problem editing the /etc/hosts file by adding the following line


"192.168.108.94 didem.localdomain didem" without the quotes.

However, i have another problem now, the vnc server gives a fatal error regarding that the trial period has expired. I have checked the realvnc site and they do not provide a trial license. I don't know how this happened but i don't want to buy something i have never experienced so i need a free vnc server. Any suggestions?

Thanks...

I haven't tried this one under linux but in Windows it works really well...
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/v...6.rpm?download

It's released under the GPL so it's free. If you would feel guilty about not paying anything you can donate to them after you try it out.

zirtik, your solution (edit /etc/hosts and add a line) worked for me. Thanks!