On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:35 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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" Which passwd file is this. root's? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
