On Friday 25 March 2005 13:34, DAN WALKER wrote: > My vnc server now sort of works! I set the password, > edited hosts.allow and my pc side now asks me for a > password and presents me with a red screen. The > problem I have is that it looks as though it has > nothing to do when it opens the window. It sits there > with the X style (not kde or gnome) watch icon. This > is what is in '/root/.vnc/xstartup': (between the > ***'s) > > *** > #!/bin/sh > > # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script > exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > > ***
You are allowing remote users to log in as root. As you know logging in as root is discouraged. It is a security risk. Assuming you used the Mandrake tightvnc-server package then you have a set up file for your vnc server in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers This file defines the servers to be started when you boot. The line VNCSERVERS="1:myusername" will start a vnc server on screen one with the user name 'myusername' chkconfig vncserver on && service vncserver start will start the vnc service automatically at boot. In your example you are starting the vnc server with 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' if you look in that file you will see it is going to start X without a Window Manager. To start in KDE for example in your /home/myusername/.vnc/xstartup file put startkde & To start fluxbox put fluxbox & to start IceWm put icewm & HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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