VNC server problem

[Hitchhiker]

I am running YDL 2.3 at the moment, and have installed VNC server.
Everything seems to be OK. Except I'm getting nothing but a blank grey screen whenever I would log in. I am using TightVNC client from a PC with Windows XP. I have checked the configurations, and I cannot see anything wrong with it as far as I can tell.

I have searched the forum, but couldn't find any solutions to the problem. Any suggestions to the problem will be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

[LrnLnx]

I'm new to Linux < 1 year but have had some of the same problems with VNC. Googling I've found post to edit the VNC configuration files that are in ~root/.VNC (they're hidden) to provide a graphical (Gnome,KDE) screen after a VNC login. What I guess you're seeing is the classic X screen. One other thing I've found is to run the command vncserve again. This creates a yourIP:2 setting (e.g. 192.168.192.168:2) from you VNC client. Connect to this one (rather than the default :1 or auto) I almost always get a graphical screen.

[m3rlin]

unhappyly im on windows, so i can't tell you the correct name of the file, but in the .VNC directory theres a config file where you can configure your graphic, and in there, you can put the
kde, simply edit the file replace the one is there and put "kde"
and the next time you login, it will appear the KDE desktop, or gnome, depends on your environment
Cheers