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luppy

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Registered: 2006-06-01

Posts: 9

TightVNC authentication problems

Hi

Im using tight vnc and x11vnc.  I have used the tool vncpasswd to create a password stored in ~/.vnc/passwd and start x11vnc with x11vnc -passwdfile ~/.vnc/passwd

This seems to fail authentication everytime I use vncviewer even though the password I am typing is correct.  Ive tried changing the password several times and deleting the passwd file and creating new ones but still get authentication failures.  Both server and viewer are using the same protocol 3.7

Is anyone else getting this problem?

Server log
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01/06/2006 08:57:32 Protocol version 3.7
01/06/2006 08:57:36 authProcessClientMessage: authentication failed from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (obviously I have removed my ip!)
01/06/2006 08:57:36 rfbAuthProcessClientMessage: password check failed

viewer log
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Connected to RFB server, using protocol version 3.7
Enabling TightVNC protocol extensions
Performing standard VNC authentication
Password:
VNC authentication failed

luppy

Member

Registered: 2006-06-01

Posts: 9

Re: TightVNC authentication problems

turns out I need to use

x11vnc -rfbauth file

instead of

x11vnc -passwdfile file

phew!