vncserver question

[woodyak]

I'm trying to run vncserver on my RH6.2 machine. I run vncserver and it starts succesfully but I cannot connect to it. Is there something I'm missing? I've looked at the docs but they don't tell me much.

[wreckd]

can you tell us how you're trying to connect? windows/linux? the commands used?
just a few checkpoints:

- make sure you use host:display# and not just host

- check the log file in ~/.vnc to make sure it started and remained running. it should also show connection attempts and the like to help you debug.

[woodyak]

The command I enter in to enable VNC Server is:
vncserver :90 -name linuxdev3

When I try to connect from a Win2k machine it fails immediately. I don't see anything about connection attempts in the logfile I do see the following error messages:

*Font directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ not found - ignoring
*xrdb: No such file or directory
*xrdb: can't open file /root/.Xresources

[wreckd]

i see similar error messages in mine...no worries there. to see if it's running and you have a path from a remote machine try telnetting to 5890 (assuming you're still running it on display 90) to see if you can make a connection or scan the box in the 58xx ports range. is it possible the ports are blocked on a firewall?

can't really think of anything else....

[ 19 September 2001: Message edited by: wreckd ]

[woodyak]

There is no firewall in between. I can see the Xvnc process running. I scanned the port and it is listening. I checked the logs after I scanned the port and that attempt shows up. When I try using the vncviwer from my pc the attempt doesn't even show up. I've tried this on 2 other Linux boxes and I get the same thing.

[woodyak]

I just tried using the java viewer via IE. It doesn't work but at least I get the following error message. Invalid RFB client. Very bizarre.