Hi all,

I am a 'newbie' trying to work out an issue. I loaded Red Hat 9 Shrike on server. I need to remote control this baby from a windows xp prof desktop. I loaded the VNC server on the RH server but am stumped as to how to:

a: configure the #@$ thing
b: connect via the client - I thought it was as simple as an IP address:0 command in the VNC viewer box.
c: I cannot even view a 'gui' icon to configure the RH VNC server app I just installed.

I have gone to the VNC site but have not found much enlightenment on it. Can someone please hand hold me through this nightmare. I am sure it's very simple but my patience has worn thin.

thanks in advance !!!

Mike

welcome to the community!!!

here's some links with good info on setting-up vnc and stuff:

http://www.realvnc.com/documentation.html

http://www.tightvnc.org/docs.html

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Network...ith_Linux.html

http://hal.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/support/vnc

http://plaguesplace.dyndns.org/wayne...ni-how-to.html

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/VNC.html




by the way, have you thought about giving openssh-server a shot instead of vnc???

http://www.openssh.org/

=)


with ssh, to connect, you'd just need do a (for example):

ssh 192.168.0.236


ssh comes with nearly every distro on the face of this earth, and to connect to a linux openssh-server from a windows pc you can use something like putty:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


good luck...

madlm,

I ran into the same problem. VNC is a piece of cake in windows and figured the same with RH. But when I went to start it nothing seemed to happen and couldn't find clear instructions. Anyway, I finally did get some help from this site. If you are still having problems here is what I did....

1. Before starting vncserver the first time you need to set the password. in terminal, goto where you installed vnc and run vncpasswd. It will prompt you to set the password.
2. Run vncserver. Go to client and you should be able to connect by starting vnc in win and typing the IP:display#
3. You should be able to connect, but might not be able to see the full desktop. If that is the case then you need to edit xstartup file.
3a. use an editor like vi and open $HOME/.vnc/xstartup.
3b. remove the # from the following lines...

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/x11/xinit/xinitrc

3c. then add # to all remaining lines. this should allow you to view the full desktop.

hope this helps..

I recently installed RealVNC 4 on my RedHat 9 box. I reviewd and followed the documentation on the RealVNC site. If I log in through PuTTY first and launch vncserver everything works great. However I cannot get my display:0 functionality to work. It prompts me for a password but when I put the password in I'm gettting "No password configured for VNC Auth"in a dialog box. I've been backwards and forwards over this and cannot figure it out. Here is my xinetd.conf

# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/

defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
cps = 25 30
}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

service vnc-1024x768x16
{
protocol = tcp
socket_type = stream
wait = yes
user = nobody
server = /usr/bin/Xvnc
server_args = -inetd -query localhost -once -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 passwordFile=/root/.vnc/passwd
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Chris