Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 colums. on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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,
Which one. You've got a GNU/Linux box and a Legacy MS Windows box.
> and then try to connect to myself w/ 'xvncviewer localhost', it tells
> me "unable to connect to host".
You do have to specify a display. E.g.:
$ xvncviewer localhost:2
The display is echoed when you launch xvncserver.
> What do I need to do to fix this?
>
> Oh yeah, is ssh going to be fixed anytime soon?
According to posts, I believe so.
BTW, you shouldn't run VNC unsecured on an open network. You're going
to want SSH no matter what.
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