On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 22:42 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: >> I administer several 'family' computers using vnc server running on >> the root display (n.b. on root display) >> >> To achieve this I did the following in Fedora 10: >> >> Created an xorg.conf with the following lines >> # >> # Minimal xorg.conf for vnc on root display >> # >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Screen0" >> Option "passwordfile" "/usr/local/etc/vnc/passwd" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Module" >> Load "vnc" >> EndSection >> >> Retsarting X (telinit 3; telinit 5) >> >> Shows vnc starting - /var/log/Xorg.0.log has: >> ... >> (II) LoadModule: "vnc" >> >> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so >> (II) Module vnc: vendor="RealVNC Ltd" >> compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0 >> Module class: X.Org Server Extension >> ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 >> (II) Loading extension VNC >> >> ... >> >> However nothing is listening on port 5900 ... >> >> So it doesn't work. >> >> Any help much appreciated. > ---- > how do you know that it's not listening on 5900? > > netstat -an |grep 5900 > > anything show up? > > Craig Another question: Did you open your firewall for the port? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines