too many authentication errors

2007-04-22 Thread joel
I've been using VNC happily for for many years now, with a Xvnc server (Xvnc version 3.3.3r2+tight1.1p9) and a variety of clients, most recently RealVNC 4.1.2 Last week, I found I could no longer connect, because of "too many authentication errors." It seems that someone has been trying, so far u

Bug with Gtk+ (XFixes crash problem?)

2007-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
Hi, I was hoping to use Xvnc as a server to host some GTK+ apps, but GTK apps running on the server error out with the following: gtk-demo --sync The program 'gtk-demo' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code

Re: Bug with Gtk+ (XFixes crash problem?)

2007-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:55 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping to use Xvnc as a server to host some GTK+ apps, but GTK > apps running on the server error out with the following: > > gtk-demo --sync > The program 'gtk-demo' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflec

Re: too many authentication errors

2007-04-22 Thread Mick
You may want to consider moving away from password authentication to secure key authentication. An alternative to your current arrangement is to set up an ssh tunnel with public key authentication between the client and server and forward port 5900 through it. It would be better if you do not use

Problem connecting to my machine outside the firewall

2007-04-22 Thread Gajanan Bhat
Hi, I have a vnc server running on a win xp machine at home, and I can connect to it from inside my LAN using its private ip address. I have opened up port 5900 on the router for both tcp and udp. Also, I have registered my domain with one of the free dns providers, and I am pointing that to my