Hiyas, Well I did try running "vncpasswd" and the program executed perfectly. It asked me to chnage my password. However I all it appears to do is write a out the password in a file "/root/.vnc/passwd" so I am not for sure what that proves. I did try to connect from with a viewer both java and application based and I still get a "Failed to connect to server." error message.
What do you mean by I need to know which virtual X server I am invoking VNC. I appologize for my lack needy questions but this is not documented very well for trying to run on Linux. Does anyone know where I can find some highly detailed documentation? Something other than the lame docs that I downloaded from the VNC site would be prefered. I also read the README that came with the linux relase of VNC but I got very little usable information related to my problem. Thanks, Bill -----Original Message----- From: Larry Honig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Try running a shell and typing "vncpasswd". If it is still running it will prompt you for a password and then a different machine should be able to connect to it on :5800. I admit to being a little buffaloed myself when trying to get VNCserver to run on Mandrake 8.2RC1 - you need to know and specify which virtual X server you are invoking VNC on, and then connect to that screen. Try doing this from inside Webmin (on the Others tab) - it may be easier. "Daugherty, William" wrote: > Hello, > > Well I am kind of stumped here while trying to run VNC on my Mandrake Linux > web server. I have had several issues but I will first show you my > progression path in try to activate the VNC server with my excerpts below > the screen outputs. > > First off I thought I would just try running the "vncserver". > > ----- > [root@crichton vnc]# ./vncserver > vncserver: couldn't find "Xvnc" on your PATH. > ----- > > This was strike 1 as it did not work, obviously. So I thought to myself > since it could not find the "Xvnc" I would just execute it manually. > > ---- > [root@crichton vnc]# ./Xvnc > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock > and start again. > ---- > > Well this was strike 2. Like an idiot I went ahead below and removed the > file in question without first finding out what it is or does. Bad move > normally I know. But I was tired and I got "rm" and Enter happy. Please > tell me I did not screw up majorly on this one. > > ---- > [root@crichton vnc]# rm /tmp/.X0-lock > rm: remove `/tmp/.X0-lock'? y > [root@crichton vnc]# ./Xvnc > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running > > Fatal server error: > Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already > run > ning > [root@crichton vnc]# > ---- > > Finally I have been lead to stike 3 and I am very tired so I am turning to > the mailing list for a hint/clue. According to what I can make of this last > error message it is telling me that I cannot intiate VNC if I already have > an X server running on the box. If my interpretation is correct please let > me know. If it is not please give me a virtual slap and point me int the > right direction by way of advice or a link to some real documentation. > > I appreciate you taking the time to review my problem. > > Thanks, > > Bill > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
