Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I need to be able to control my friends computer from mine. Telnet doesn't work, and ssh
is broken, so I thought VNC would be rad. I am to the point where I can use vncviewer
from my Linux to control my windoze box, but that doesn't do much for me. If I run
vncserver on my computer, and then try to connect to myself w/ 'xvncviewer localhost', it
tells me "unable to connect to host". What do I need to do to fix this?
You might try 'xvncviewer localhost:[display number where vncserver is
running]'.
I've never been able to figure out how to get the vncserver to act like
a regular X server, serving both the local display and the remote
display. Instead, I've only been able to get the regular X server to
serve the local display, and then the vncserver runs alongside it on
(usually) the next higher-numbered display, but you don't "see" anything
locally; then you connect from the remote machine to the vnc's display
number and see a fresh clean X display, but not the one you see when
you're sitting in front of the local machine.
Oh yeah, is ssh going to be fixed anytime soon?
I hope so.
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
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