The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
-- Rex
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
-- Rex
Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the Apple system. Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up. Typically in vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc.
The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a firewall blocking vnc.
Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
-- Rex
Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the Apple system. Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up. Typically in vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc.
The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a firewall blocking vnc.
Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem.
Thsi is a good suggestion and I will have to ofllow though on that. But I would accept any known other vnclient name in the meantime. There is a OS X vnc client called Chicken of VNC that does work.
But I will collect the error information and post it.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
-- Rex
Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the Apple system. Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up. Typically in vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc.
The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a firewall blocking vnc.
Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem.
Ok invoking vncviewer pandora01 returns:
VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Aug 4 2005 06:43:41 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Fri Mar 10 21:35:02 2006 CConn: connected to host pandora01 port 5900 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
At this point a window opens asking for a passwd. I enter a
passwd . Then the following lines appear. Fri Mar 10 21:35:07 2006 TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16. CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 CConn: Using ZRLE encoding
a screen image opens filling with random colors. The screen image disappears and the following lines are printed on the console screen. At the same time a window opens with the error message : unknown message type. I click ok and the application quits. Fri Mar 10 21:35:27 2006 CConn: Throughput 6263 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding CConn: Throughput 6263 kbit/s - changing to full colour CConn: Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 CConn: Using hextile encoding unknown message type 255
unknown message.
Any ideas about what is wrong? No error messages appear in the messages file. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? --
According to the folks at RealVNC, the problem is that Apple's server isn't compatible.
http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-March/054353.html
Look here:
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hooper" whooperhsd3@earthlink.net To: fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 3:22 PM Subject: Re: Substitute vncviewer
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? --
According to the folks at RealVNC, the problem is that Apple's server isn't compatible.
http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-March/054353.html
-- William Hooper
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:22:47PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? --
According to the folks at RealVNC, the problem is that Apple's server isn't compatible.
http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-March/054353.html
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Look I appreciate any help I can get and the link above is interesting. However the people posting in that interchange seem not to know that there is a OS X compatible vnc-server called OSvnc (not from apple) that does work with vncviewer. So you ask why not use that server. Good question, I think we should.
So I assume there are no vnc client programs around that might be compatible with Apple Remote Desktop. Such is life. As I said there is a compatible client that works in OS X (and maybe in Windows) called Chicken of the VNC. But no Linux version that I can find.
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 15:59 -0600, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
So I assume there are no vnc client programs around that might be compatible with Apple Remote Desktop. Such is life.
As others have said, it's not the client that needs replacing, but the server. The Apple one is broken in several regards. Just disable it and get the excellent free OSXvnc from versiontracker.
Cheers Steffen.