hi marcelo... thanks for the reply... i negelected to state that i have dns. however, after trying your solution, i am still left with the xdwindows version of VNC. if i used the etc/hosts that i initially had, i get the gnome look/feel... any thoughts/suggestions from anybody! to be honest, i'm at a loss as to why you really even need the /etc/hosts file if you have access to a dns server. -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Marcelo de Souza Sant'Anna [mailto:marcelo.santanna@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:26 PM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: linux - vncserver Hi Try this (/etc/hosts): 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost your.ip.x.x yourhost.yourdomain yourhost On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 18:06 -0700, bruce wrote: hi. i have vncserver running on a linux FC3 box. in adding another app, it appears that vnc requires that my "/etc/hosts" file be set up with: 127.0.0.1 foo localhost.localdomain localhost foo in this case is the name of the box. i'm trying to setup my VNC and the Condor app to work on a number of machines in my network. it appears that i can't have "foo" on the same line as the 127.0.0.1 for Condor to work. however, it appears that I can't remove the 'foo' or the VNC doesn't seem to work. i'm using VNC to generate the gnome display. it appears that my issues are tied to the /etc/hosts file... any thoughts/assistance will be appreciated. thanks -bruce
