Alex, Thanks for the response...
There is nothing in netstat that indicates the server is running after attempting to connect. It does not show in in a ps either. Should it be? I do not see any log files on either of the systems that indicate that they are from VNC. Would you please provide a path to where they should be. The only thing I find that appears to be part of VNC is a directory in the home directory on both systems named .tsclient, which contains the file mru.tsc on both systems and last.tsc on the viewer system. The mru.tsc files are empty. The contents of last.tsc do not appear relevent to the problem. The documented directory .vnc does not exist on either system. I am wondering if there is some sort of lock file that remains do to the abnormal exit I forced. However, I have been unable to locate it. Would it do any good to reinstall the software? Yes, you are correct I did mean 8.04. Regards, Jay Alex Pelts wrote: > After connection is closed do netstat and see if server is still > running. Or maybe ps. I think your server is exiting for some reason. > You can look at the logs which it saves, your clue is likely to be > there. And I think you mean 8.04 not 4.08. > > Regards, > Alex > > > Jay Ridgley wrote: >> Hi Y'all, >> >> I am new to VNC but not to Linux or Ubuntu, however, still very much human. >> >> I installed vnc4server on the remote system(the_host) which is my >> firewall server. It will be headless when I get finished getting things >> worked out so that I can control it remotely. >> >> I installed vnc4viewer on the system I was working from(viewing_host) >> >> No problems >> >> I then started up the viewer - IT WORKED! >> >> I then changed the display I was working on to full screen and could not >> get back; yeah I know RTFM first but I didn't... I forced a reboot of my >> system and tried again and got the following message: >> >> Connection to host "the_host:5900" was closed. >> >> I have restarted both systems, no help. Searched the VNC site for >> information on the error and was not able to find anything that >> indicated a solution. I also tried searching the Ubuntu forum... >> >> I have enabled port 5900 for the viewing_host in firestarter on the_host. >> >> The message still appears... >> >> I am running 4.08 LTS and VNC 4.1 on both systems >> >> How do I solve this problem? >> >> Regards, >> Jay >> > > -- Jay Ridgley jridgl...@austin.rr.com Registered Linux User ID - 9115 Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
