On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of > > > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion > > > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? > > > > Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate. > > > > -- Rex > > > > Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the > Apple system. Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up. Typically in > vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number > to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be > port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc. > > The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a > firewall blocking vnc. > > Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are > invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem. Ok invoking vncviewer pandora01 returns: VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Aug 4 2005 06:43:41 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Fri Mar 10 21:35:02 2006 CConn: connected to host pandora01 port 5900 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8 >>>> At this point a window opens asking for a passwd. I enter a passwd . Then the following lines appear. Fri Mar 10 21:35:07 2006 TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16. CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 CConn: Using ZRLE encoding a screen image opens filling with random colors. The screen image disappears and the following lines are printed on the console screen. At the same time a window opens with the error message : unknown message type. I click ok and the application quits. Fri Mar 10 21:35:27 2006 CConn: Throughput 6263 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding CConn: Throughput 6263 kbit/s - changing to full colour CConn: Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 CConn: Using hextile encoding unknown message type 255 unknown message. Any ideas about what is wrong? No error messages appear in the messages file. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
