On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:09:00PM -0400, Mark Miksis wrote:
> When using the vnc-server package that comes with RH 7.1, is there a way to
> put arguments such as -depth or -geometry in the entries in the vncservers
> file? Do I have to edit /etc/init.d/vncserver instead? Is there another
> rec
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:07:26PM -0700, Vess Kavalov wrote:
> Not a big deal 4 me - this is probably the ONLY offending page out
> there but thought it would do my neighbor (and me) good (and
> probably will make the world a better place :) if someone can weed
> this pesky little bug out!
Nets
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:19:13PM -0400, hector rosenfeld wrote:
> What I have in mind for myself is a close collaboration with others
> in writing a scientific program in C, with many people typing in
> statements that can be reviewed on the fly by all participants and
> comments added to the c
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:04:54AM -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> I need a little help with a few things running VNC on Redhat 7.
Are you using the RPM packages of VNC that came with the distribution?
They should work 'out of the box'.
> 1) The docs say that the vncserver script might need to be
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:35:54AM +0100, dan grundy wrote:
> near the top of the file u will see the following two lines:
>
> echo -n "Starting VNC server: "
> daemon vncserver
>
> change this 2:
>
> echo -n "Starting VNC server: "
> export HOME=/root
> daemon vncserver
I th
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Daniel Collins wrote:
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
> AUDIT: Tue Jul 17 14:11:38 2001: 4413 Xvnc: client 1 rejected from local
> host
Is your XAUTHORITY variable set? If so, take a look through the
archives for a patch I posted (some months a
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:01:53PM -0400, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Basically, I need to give a local user and a remote user access to the
> same X session via vnc. Is it possible?
Yes: use x0rfbserver.
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:09:23AM -0400, Yan Seiner wrote:
> [yan@hamlet bin]$ ./x0rfbserver -shared
> [yan@hamlet bin]$ x0rfbserver:
Hmm, perhaps the options parsing is broken. What if you run it
without any options?
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:06:14AM -0700, dans_vnc_stuff wrote:
> Thanks all for helping me fix my VNC problem. I did get it to
> work...however, I can't get any programs to run. When I log in I see the
> desktop and icons but all the programs I try always crash as soon as I run
> them. In fac
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:45:41PM -0500, Barn Owl wrote:
> I am on a non-rpm system. so i will need to make the
> /etc/init.d/functions dir. What goes in it? Same with the
> /etc/sysconfig/network. Are they even important?
/etc/sysconfig/network can be an empty file and the script will still
wo
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:03:02AM -0400, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Here's how I start the whole thing:
>
> /usr/bin/vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 24 -deferupdate 50
> /usr/bin/vncviewer -shared -fullscreen -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 24
> -encodings "raw" localhost:1
>
> I've tried this with
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Brett Bolen wrote:
> I would like to use vnc to look at the X display on the
> real video card.
x0rfbserver
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:21:50AM -0400, Brett Bolen wrote:
> Tim, I tried this a couple days ago and it performed
> poorly.
Yes, it will, as it has to scan the entire screen for updates.
> I'm wondering if there are any better solutions:
>
> 1. DRI
> 2. fbdev stuff
Port Xvnc to
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:43:56PM +0100, Roger Brailly wrote:
> I assume the security of the software is correct
It isn't; in other words, VNC is not meant to be used on insecure
networks. Look at the FAQ for ways of running VNC securely.
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:42:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Xvnc server running xdm. I need Xvnc to automatically reset when client
>connections close. VNC seems like a great application but if
> it leaves sessions open to whoever connects next then I can't use it.
What you want
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:11:52AM -0700, SI Reasoning wrote:
> Often when in full screen mode, something from the
> underlying computer may run and take the keystrokes
> out of vnc. It also happens if I start in full-screen
> mode unfortunately... no keyboard! Is there a linux
> and/or windows s
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:51:47PM -0700, SI Reasoning wrote:
> This happens to me in all that I have tried. Gnome,
> KDE2.1, KDE2.2, IceWM, Blackbox
Okay, I guess it isn't a wm bug. Which VNC package/version/release
are you using? Have you compiled from source?
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:29:47PM -0700, SI Reasoning wrote:
> I use Mandrake's vncviewer and Xvnc since they compile to i586 and
> include tight encoding. I also use Tridiavnc's vncviewer (named
> runvncviewer) since Mandrake's vncviewer only works on command line
> (Mandrake's X vncviewer does
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:48:01AM -0700, SI Reasoning wrote:
> When did redhat compile in tight? I could never get it
> to work in the past.
Since Roswell (the current beta).
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:40:56AM -0700, SI Reasoning wrote:
> Is it only available through Roswell?
Well, you can get the package on its own from the FTP site.
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Here is a patch that makes vncpasswd create ~/.vnc if it doesn't
exist, rather than failing with a less than obvious error message.
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--- vnc_unixsrc/vncpasswd/vncpasswd.c.vncuserdirTue Aug 17 12:31:42 1999
+++ vnc_unixsrc/vncpasswd/vncpasswd.c Mon Sep 3 18:09:06 2001
@@ -24,9 +
Here is the patch that I'll be putting into the Red Hat Linux VNC RPMs
to make this kind of thing easier.
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--- vnc_unixsrc/vncserver.xclients Mon Sep 3 17:45:51 2001
+++ vnc_unixsrc/vncserver Mon Sep 3 17:48:16 2001
@@ -43,10 +43,8 @@
$defaultXStartup
= ("#!/bin/sh\n\
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:31:13PM +1000, Andrew van der Stock wrote:
> NO! NO! NO! NO!*
I know what you mean; I was horified myself to learn that the user's
.vnc directory has world execute permission. But the passwd file has
mode 600 (see the code that creates it in the library).
I was just
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:10:11AM -0700, SI Reasoning wrote:
> The biggest problem I see is that the password script
> can be easily deleted, then recreated...
How? What am I missing?
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:55:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Indeed, I have been doing so. But now I want to have separate environments
> and vncserver passwords. The Password is encrypted in ~/.vnc/passwd.
>
> I want to do this without creating a bunch of new Unix users.
The way to do t
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:18:41PM +0800, Const Kaplinsky wrote:
> TightVNC 1.2.1 has been released today. Here is a brief list of
> changes over 1.2.0:
Hi Const,
It doesn't patch cleanly against VNC 3.3.3r2 because you seem to have
deleted files like ChangeLog and WhatsNew first.
How exactly
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 02:29:16PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> It doesn't patch cleanly against VNC 3.3.3r2 because you seem to have
> deleted files like ChangeLog and WhatsNew first.
Mea culpa. I had unpacked the Java binaries before applying the
patch, which no longer works for
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:20:20AM -0400, Jerry Kozelsky wrote:
> But I can't find its name anywhere. I've been through all the startup scripts
> but I can't find it anywhere. On Corel Linux I was using KDE, so it was
> started by startkde. But I can't find the name of the equivalent startup
> da
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:09:08PM -0500, Mike Gehl wrote:
> Also tried the -query localhost option but it just gives me the grey
> background.
See the mail from Jeff Vincent in the archives of this list; I think
it's relevant to this problem.
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:10:37PM -0600, Jeff Vincent wrote:
> My information only works if using xinetd and not launching vncsever through
> the rc.d scripts. I haven't yet figured out what the /etc/init.d/vncserver
> script actually buys me yet. I'm open for any information on how or why to
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:40:57PM -0600, Jeff Vincent wrote:
> I can have ALL users connect to port 5953 (for example) if they so desire,
> because they each will get their own new session with their own login
prompt.
Okay, my mistake. But then the session is not persistent, if I
understand co
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:50:14PM -0500, Chris Hare, CISSP, CISA wrote:
> There is a CORE SDI advisory about the VNC authentication protocol and how
> it is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack. This advisory was for
> 3.3.3. Has it been corrected in the current implementations?
No, it ha
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 02:10:45PM -0800, Russ Ferriday wrote:
> I'm finding various references to
> Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":1.0".
> in connection with the use on VNC on RedHat 7.1.
>
> One example is :
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-June/008997.html
>
>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:31:04PM -0600, Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
> How does one do that? I use the command vncserver. Should I be using the
> command "Xvnc -cc 3" to start the server?
Yes, or 'vncserver -cc 3'.
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:41:53AM -, Mad Magician wrote:
> 1) I would like the geometry for all displays to be 800x600 and think I
need
> to modify /etc/rc5.d/S91vncserver start() section below. Am I on the right
> lines?
>
> "su ${display##*:} -c \"cd ~${display##*:} && [ -f .vnc/passwd ]
&
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:04:16AM +, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> ... does not run on UDP. I don't think NFS does either.
Yes it does.
> You forget that UDP stands for Unreliable Datagram Protocol,
No it doesn't.
> If you look closely at the RFB specification, you will notice that
> there i
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:44:09PM -0600, Robert A. Book wrote:
> Installing the RPMs intended for Red Hat 7.1 didn't work because I
> apparently have an old version of bash (<2.0) (which couldn't be
> upgraded because of other dependency issues). I can't believe bash
> has changed that much, so
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:46:57AM +0100, root wrote:
> rpm -ivh vnc-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.1-1.i386.rpm
>
> I had this error:
>
> file /usr/bin/vncviewer from install of vnc-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.1-1 conflicts
> with file from package vnc-3.3.3r2-14
> file /usr/share/man/man1/vncviewer.1.gz from install of
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:09:24PM -0600, Chad Flynt wrote:
> In other words. When the system boots up is there a way to have it
> start 2 different user's VNC Servers automatically? I know you can
> have VNC startup automatically as a service but that starts it as
> Root if I am not mistaken.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:07:44AM -0600, Floyd Russell wrote:
> I'm looking for a utility that will let me send
> a series of keystrokes to a VNC server. Something like
> rfbplayback would be nice, hopefully a little more
> mature. This needs to be 100% no user interaction required.
Do yo
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:21:05AM -0800, Scott J. Sherratt wrote:
> However, every time I reboot, vncserver starts up and creates a new entry
> in /tmp/.X11-unix X0 X1 X2 X3 etc. and I have to connect remotely using
> the latest number i.e. vnc to 192.168.1.100:3. Are the Xn's supposed to
> b
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Petrus Human wrote:
> I have a problem where I have Redhat Linux server with 2 network
> cards, eth0 is external and eth1 is internal. I need to use VNC on
> eth1 but it looks like the default istall uses eth0. Does anyone
> know how to select a specific
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:28:57PM +0200, Petrus Human wrote:
> This helps alot, I've tried to find a download site for the Redhat 7.2
> version of Xvnc but could not find any.Could anyone help me with a link
> please
Er.. did you try ftp.redhat.com? Or any Red Hat mirror..
/pub/redhat/linux/7
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:46:23AM -0500, David C. McDowell wrote:
> What makes the rawhide version better, just more recent?
Basically. The main bug that it fixes is an Xvnc crash in the font
server code. (The reason it shows up now is that I switched the
vncserver script to use the local font
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:12:20PM -0700, fumi wrote:
> Here is my environment.
> OS: RedHat 7.1
> X: KDE(bundled with RedHat7.1)
Why not install the VNC packages that come with Red Hat Linux 7.1?
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:45:58PM +0100, Richard Marshall wrote:
> what do i need to enter exactly for the kde environment to start properly
> for the client?
Try:
#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
Then you can control which desktop is used by using 'switchdesk'.
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:44:39AM +0200, Rao Pramodh wrote:
> I would automatically like to start the vncserver for "n" users on a linux
> machine everytime the system reboots.
>
> I would like to do it as follows:
> root
> user1
> ..
> usern
A script for doing this is provided with the
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:47:21PM -0600, Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
> I am wondering what kind of configuration would have to be setup on
> my Linux box so that I can view the GNOME desktop that comes up when
> the computer boots up (not a replica of it). I am very novice when
> it comes to Linux
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:57:50AM +0800, Const Kaplinsky wrote:
> By the way, I think it could be reasonable to append tight version
> number to the vnc rpm version in the Red Hat rpm, just to make clear
> that this is not the standard VNC distribution but a modified one,
> e.g. vnc-3.3.3r2+tigh
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:06:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then I went and did the unthinkable, which was to load the VNC RPMs from the
> RH7.1 distro onto my 7.1 server. The default desktop came up beautifully,
> as stark as it is. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to start
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:57:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It worked like a charm. Now that I know where to look in the archives
> (again, thanks for the tip) I'll go read up. BTW, the command line I found
> that it finally liked in ~/.vnc/xstartup was
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession kde &
B
Hi,
This patch for VNC 3.3.3r2 adds support for the S/390 architecture.
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vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/config/cf/Imake.cf
--- vnc_unixsrc.nos390/Xvnc/config/cf/Imake.cf Wed Dec 5 18:25:03 2001
+++ vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/config/cf/Imake.cf Wed Dec 5 1
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:01:00PM +0800, Laurence Tsai wrote:
> amazing , doe VNC support Linux 390 ?
I'm told that the patch is tested and works, so yes. :-)
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:25:18AM -0500, Gabor D. Kiss wrote:
> Why in the world would this be illegal?? I could understand MS having an
> interest in not having people do it, if they offer for sale something that
> has similar functionality. Maybe they even put something into XP to break
> vnc
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:17:21PM -0600, AceMiles, Inc. wrote:
> (If I am mis-reading the following snip from the Resource Hacker web site,
> let me know:
> "Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add,
> delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables. It inco
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:34:39PM -, Telmo Filipe Magarico wrote:
> Does any one know how to record a VNC Session in video format or
> other, in order to review what operation were made?
There is a program called rfbproxy that can do this. It just stores
the screen updates as they come, no
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:51:46PM -0500, Tom French wrote:
> I forgot to mention the problem..
>
> I am connecting to the RH7.1 via a WIN NT client pc. on a different
network.
> The vnc program on the WIN client works fine as I connect to other WIN
> servers, running vnc.
And so the problem is.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:38:52AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also check the Redhat script. Is does some wierd and unneed things
> to get VNC to start at boot time. This maybe the source of the
> trouble.
Unneeded? Can you expand on that?
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Here is a patch to make vncserver actually check that Xvnc
successfully started up.
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--- vncserver Thu Nov 29 19:43:46 2001
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@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@
# Give Xvnc a chance to start up
sleep(3);
+unless (kill 0, `cat $pidFile`) {
+warn "Couldn'
ption.
useRemoteCursor (class UseRemoteCursor)
Equivalent of -nocursorshape option.Default
true.
SEE ALSO
vncserver(1), Xvnc(1), vncpasswd(1), vncconnect(1)
AUTHOR
AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
Man
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:03:15PM -0800, joc back wrote:
> The rpm file on the Linux box is
> vnc-server-3.3.3r2-18 which came from the RedHat CD. I
> tested to see if I could view the desktop from the
> local Linux machine running vncviewer, and I was able
> to do so.
> Can anybody giv
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:47:45PM +1100, Brian Turner wrote:
> and for Xaccess I uncommented one line to read:
> any host can get a login windows
It should read:
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:46:44PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> Has anyone seen this? I hope it doesn't open a security hole in VNC.
> The article suggests that VNC is "potentially vulnerable."
>
> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/security_sources_article-4582.html
The reason is that many
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:53:04AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Looks like it could affect a lot more than VNC so that is probably the
> least of your worries if you are exposing systems using zlib to the
> internet. Seems like if you're running SSH it likely would protect you
> from any ex
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:43:25AM +0200, "Beerse, Corni" wrote:
> For some whild ideas, I'm looking for a vncviewer that runs at a
> pc/linux text console, without the need for an X11 server. The linux
> framebuffer may be used.
There is an SVGALib version around, I think, if that's what you're
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:20:07AM -0400, Chris Bartlett wrote:
> Yup, text only. Both are "psudeo" servers. That is, they are running
> control software for a system we use at work. It either one
> "hiccups" it can take down the system, and keep people from doing
> their job (read: we pay people
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:42:30AM -0400, Louis Ingalls wrote:
> My question is, nowhere have I found either in Oracle doc or VNC doc
> an explanation of the need to do this or why. Not being an
> experienced Unix admin or having one available that knows about X,
> we are unaware of the ramificat
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 08:35:13PM -0330, Neil Zanella wrote:
> xrdb: No such file or directory
> xrdb: can't open file '/home/nzanella/.Xresources'
Perhaps the xstartup script is bailing out here. If you comment out
the xrdb line, does it go any better?
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Allan Gee wrote:
> 29/11/00 11:10:02 Got connection from client 192.168.178.14
> 29/11/00 11:10:02 rfbProcessClientProtocolVersion: not a valid RFB client
> 29/11/00 11:10:02 Client 192.168.178.14 gone
telnet _isn't_ a valid RFB client. Why not use a VN
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:21:16PM +0200, Allan Gee wrote:
> I am (trying) to use the vncviewer via the browser (IE5) and when I do I
Do you get better results with the non-Java viewer (vncviewer.exe)?
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:47:45PM +0200, Allan Gee wrote:
> Thus it would seem that the Apache server does not know where the java files
> live. Do you know how I get over this?
It isn't apache that's doing the web serving; it's Xvnc. Check out
the -http* options.
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:59:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken TridiaVNC has made some modifications to the original
> VNC source code.
They have added copyright lines, yes.
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On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:16:01PM -0600, Edward Thompson wrote:
> Thanx, this worked great.
> I found that RedHat7 had already created a vncserver file under
> /etc/rc.d/init.d, but individual user servers weren't in it. (Yours worked
> better)
If you're running Red Hat Linux 7, you might want
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:43:43PM -0500, Christopher wrote:
> I'm attempting to determine exactly how the VNC server and the
> X-server relate to one another.
See the Xvnc source tree: you'll see that the VNC server (Xvnc) _is_
an X server, with the 'remote framebuffer' bit implemented as a
gra
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:20:40PM -0800, Amitabh A. Nene wrote:
> a) Make the vnc server use the local desktop - i.e. display :0.
See ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/RPMS/i386/>. You want the
latest xclass and rfb RPMs, and the command you want is
'man x0rfbserver'.
> b) For other displays (:>
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:35:45PM -0700, Tim Senecal wrote:
> ...if the vnc display can be restructured for a black and white 64x42 pixel
> screen.
Talking of small VNC viewer windows, I've long been meaning to have a
64x64 VNC viewer dock-app that does anti-aliasing..
Not that anti-aliasing h
For #79006 see the archvies of this list, or
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla. It's an Xaw bug.
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:29:50AM -0500, Chip Mefford wrote:
> vncserver running on intel based RH 7 box.
Did you run it as 'vncserver' or as 'Xvnc'? If 'Xvnc', did you use
the -httpd option?
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:56:58AM -0500, Serge Dutremble wrote:
> I must have a problem on one end with the SSH version 2. The server end
> (remoteIP) was installed separately on Mandrake 6.2 while the workstation end
> (localIP) came pre-installed with RedHat 7.0. I must have missed a step
>
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:02:36PM -0500, Erdely, Michael wrote:
> It does.
I'm talking about reverse port forwarding (-R), if that makes a
difference.
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:08:36AM -0600, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> The fix is for vncserver to $ENV{XAUTHORITY} = $xauthorityFile; and
possibly
> also to delete $ENV{DISPLAY};.
Indeed. (This was discussed on this list a month or two back.)
Here's the patch we're shipping:
--- vnc_unixsrc/vn
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:44:27AM -0500, Olano, Kenny Kris wrote:
> I am new to vnc and i would like to know if it possible to set vnc
> to only listen on a specific ip address???
There is a -interface option in Tridia's version of VNC I think. It
makes Xvnc listen only on a particular interfa
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:15:41PM +0100, Luis Olivares wrote:
> There is any VNC mode for a multi-cast connection with the clients (or
> something like that)?
> Can the clients receive at the same time the information?
I looked into this briefly a while back but didn't write any actual
code. I
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:36:34AM -, Gair, Jon wrote:
> If so, how can it be done ??
There is a patch for a -interface option floating around. I think
Tridia may have incorporated it into their version of VNC. See
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/2000-11/0174.html>.
Tim.
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:26:46AM -0800, Brett J. Goldstein wrote:
> vncserver: couldn't find "XVnc" on your PATH
>
> XVnc is right there next to vncserver so I'm not sure
> what to fix.
What is your $PATH, and where are the files?
The server binary is actually called 'Xvnc', with a lower-case
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:44:44PM -0800, girish sonawane wrote:
> Or is it in-built in AT&T unix version of Xvnc ?
It's in the latest AT&T version.
Tim.
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:24:48AM -0500, Jerry Coker wrote:
> Does WinVNC pass the pw in the clear!? The authentication method used
> by WinVNC client/server is fuzzy to me after reading
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html. I get the impression that
> the pw may be passed as plain
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:29:04AM -0600, Bryan A. Pendleton wrote:
> While I'm piping up - any one of you out there who are working on session
> recording software working on the ability to record sessions either at the
> client, or in a way that handles listen-mode sessions? I'm interested in
>
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:26:10PM -0600, brandon willis wrote:
> Is there a way to tie the main :0 to vnc? that way you can control the
> desktop just like when you take control of a windows machine?
Yes. If you are using an RPM-based system, there are even
pre-compiled packages for you to d
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:19:17PM +0100, Jens Wagner wrote:
> I assume Tim's writing about the rfb - rpm's (it includes the app you're
> looking for: x0rfbserver).
Sorry, yes: xclass and rfb are the ones.
Tim.
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:45:51AM -0600, brandon willis wrote:
> I guess I should have been more clear when I asked this question. I am
> running Solaris 8, so unless the source can eb compiled for Solaris is there
> any other way to get it to work ?
The source is at http://www.hexonet.de/sof
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:57:50AM -0500, Jerry Coker wrote:
> Thanks for posting to the list. Question: Until we can implement vnc
> tunnelling via ssh for our user base (we just started using winvnc here)
> will using the AuthHost registry hack, as we currently do,
> (example: "-:+www.xxx.yyy
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:55:19PM +, John Ineson wrote:
> P.S. I've just signed up, so sorry if this issue's come up before. I
> have looked at the archives & docs and couldn't find anything.
Take another look. There is a security advisory in the archive that's
about a day old.
Not to men
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:36:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What about this... Assuming I got it right, using VNC with SSH gives
> very good security. The development of SSH is continously going
> on. One could make VNC profit of this. So for UNIX it would be
> sufficient to have some fu
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:19:44AM -0800, Seran O'Morrigan wrote:
> Is this possible, and would it look exactly the same as XFree? I've seen a
> few people say that they have gotten the gnome login manager thing working
> properly, but nobody's mentioned really how to do it. Any help would be
> g
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:32:22AM -0800, Seran O'Morrigan wrote:
> Just a guess, but might I also have to edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and change
> the 0: line in there, as well?
If you're using gdm it's entirely different, yes.
> Any ideas?
No, sorry. I don't use gdm.
Tim.
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:44:40AM -0700, Dave Warren wrote:
> I might have misunderstood, I don't use SSH very much, but from an
> encryption-only standpoint (Using VNC's own authentication, which would go
> through the SSH tunnel too, so we don't have to worry about the security
> problems rece
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:47:24PM -0500, Rob Torop wrote:
> I had this problem and it turned out to have to do with the color depth;
> I was trying to use 8 bits.
Okay, this also works around the problem for me.
It's still a bit puzzling: KDE 2 works fine in 8 bpp on a hardware X
server, so wh
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:57:33AM -0800, girish sonawane wrote:
> Try to connect to the Xvnc server thr' Windows based
> viewer giving VNC Server as "servername:5951". The
> viewer dialog closes & nothing happens.
Try 'servername:51' instead.
Failing that, try using the telnet program to conne
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