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Registered: 2010-07-29

Posts: 15

VNC access to physical X session

I am trying to setup VNC remote access to physical X session.

I have configured the following in xorg.conf.d/60-vpn.conf

Section "Module"
    Load    "vnc"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "VNC Screen"
    Option      "PasswordFile"  "/home/username/.vnc/passwd"

    Option "AlwaysShared"
    Option "AcceptKeyEvents" "1"
    Option "AcceptPointerEvents" "1"

EndSection

I have used vncpasswd to generate the /home/username/.vnc/passwd file. I have gdm.service configured, and I can see xorg.bin listening on port 5900 as expected.

Yet when I try to connect via vncviewer I get the following error: "No password configured for VNC Auth".

On the server side I get the following error in the logs,

SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
SConnection: Client requests security type VeNCrypt(19)
SVncAuth:    neither Password nor PasswordFile params set
SConnection: AuthFailureException: No password configured for VNC Auth

I can't understand why I am getting this error, considering that I have PasswordFile set and have used vncpasswd to generate password file.
Can somebody kindly help me understand the issue over here?

Thanks for your patience in reading a rather long message.

slash_blog

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Registered: 2010-07-29

Posts: 15

Re: VNC access to physical X session

Ok. I figured out the problem. Never mind!

butler360

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Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 31

Re: VNC access to physical X session

So what was the solution?!?!?