Pending further investigation, we now allege that Giulio Morgan wrote: > > I am trying, unsuccessfully, to make a VNC connection from Windows98 (office > of > my client) to my woody machine. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something about > the usage of VNC, and if anyone could help, I would really appreciate it. > > I start the vncserver by > $ vncserver :4, > then check for my password in ~/.vnc/passwd. I discover it to be > \111A\222\333P\444L\555, > > I then launch vncviewer from the windows machine, and am prompted for the > address I wish to establish a connection to, I type in "my dynamic ip > address:4", and I am then prompted for "session password", and type > \111A\222\333P\444L\555, > and I get a notification: VNC authentication failed!
The password that is stored in ~/.vnc/passwd is encrypted. Use vncpasswd to set or change it.
