On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 15:46, Robert Slade wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:12, Peter Hutnick wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2005 1:02 PM, Peter Hutnick <hutnick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a FC3 system with VNC server installed, but without X. Doesn't work. > > > > Oops. Opening the port helps. But for some reason every time I do > > "service iptables restart" it says "Unloading iptables moduels > > [FAILED]". > > VNC is a program for exporting an X desktop hence the need to have X. If > you want to connect to a remote machine use SSH eh ssh user@remotehost. > It will ask you about keys then the User@remote hosts passwork and then > you should be at the prompt. Also you should consider running vnc over an ssh tunnel since vnc does not provide any type of encryption for its connectivity. This is particularly important if you are running vnc over the Internet to a remote location. There are various how to's available on how to run vnc over ssh on the web as well as at the realvnc site. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention: Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.
