vnc server problem
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jan 19 03:51:42 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 22:42 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> I administer several 'family' computers using vnc server running on
> the root display (n.b. on root display)
>
> To achieve this I did the following in Fedora 10:
>
> Created an xorg.conf with the following lines
> #
> # Minimal xorg.conf for vnc on root display
> #
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Option "passwordfile" "/usr/local/etc/vnc/passwd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "vnc"
> EndSection
>
> Retsarting X (telinit 3; telinit 5)
>
> Shows vnc starting - /var/log/Xorg.0.log has:
> ...
> (II) LoadModule: "vnc"
>
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so
> (II) Module vnc: vendor="RealVNC Ltd"
> compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
> Module class: X.Org Server Extension
> ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
> (II) Loading extension VNC
>
> ...
>
> However nothing is listening on port 5900 ...
>
> So it doesn't work.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
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how do you know that it's not listening on 5900?
netstat -an |grep 5900
anything show up?
Craig
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