On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:49 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:38 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:22 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > No matter how I try when I try to start a vnc session from one of my > > > home machines to another I get the error: > > > > > > [akonstam@vulcan ~]$ vncviewer saturn > > > > > > VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built May 17 2006 11:06:32 > > > Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. > > > See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. > > > > > > Fri Dec 29 16:13:43 2006 > > > main: unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111) > > > > > > Also when I restart vncserver on the server machine I can't find that > > > program running anywhere on the server machine. Can anyone explain all > > > this? > > ---- > > 1 - look for Xvnc > > 2 - vncviewer has man pages - you should read them to know that you need > > to designate the 'display' number > > 3 - vncserver won't run if you haven't run vncpasswd as the user first. > > vncserver also has a man page > > > > Craig > > > Well I got it to work using your hints. But I don't ever remember having > to do this before. But such is life. > Thanks for your response and that of Rick Stevens. You're quite welcome. You may have loaded the vnc module into your X configuration before, so you'd just "vncviewer saturn" and your main display shows up. Here's a excerpt from /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Add this section (if you don't have a "Module" section): Section "Module" Load "vnc" EndSection Add this to the "Screen" section: Option "passwordfile" "/path/to/.vnc/passwd" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3--not even for large values of 2. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
