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MW

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 127

TightVNC

I'm primarly a Gentoo user but am busy trying out Arch on my daughters PC.

Problem:
I can install and initiate a vncserver session with TightVNC on her PC but cannot seem to connect to it from my PC.

I saw in the little while that I used Arch that it seems to be very restrictive on incoming connections, but what service needs to be enables in hosts.allow to allow for vnc type connections?

root@192.168.0.5's password:
Last login: Fri Jul 27 20:45:25 2007 from mw
[root@carley ~]# vncserver
xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "carley:7" in "add" command

New 'X' desktop is carley:7

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/carley:7.log

vncviewer 192.168.0.5
vncviewer: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused
Unable to connect to VNC server

Now the log file on her PC:

[root@carley ~]# cat .vnc/carley\:7.log
28/07/07 14:12:01 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
28/07/07 14:12:01 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
28/07/07 14:12:01 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
28/07/07 14:12:01 All Rights Reserved.
28/07/07 14:12:01 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
28/07/07 14:12:01 Desktop name 'X' (carley:7)
28/07/07 14:12:01 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
28/07/07 14:12:01 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5907
28/07/07 14:12:01 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5807
28/07/07 14:12:01   URL http://carley:5807
kbuildsycoca running...

Can't see anything wrong there...

And lastly the config file:

[root@carley ~]# cat .vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
kwin
startkde &

mezoko

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Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 310

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Re: TightVNC

Well I'm kinda mixed on the issue I hope your daughter is young or else you shouldn't really be spying on her. Anyways from my understanding tightvnc starts up its own X session so you can see your daughters X session. Thus you would want to use a program called x11vnc to view the current xsession and I also believe gnome has a vnc server thing in the options.

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MW

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 127

Re: TightVNC

As you can see the problem is not finding a client to view the session, the problem is getting access to the server.

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: TightVNC

Is your vncviewer set to connect on port 5907 ?

Iirc you also need to enable 'x fowarding' or something similar on your daughter's pc.

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mezoko

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Registered: 2005-03-26

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Re: TightVNC

My bad I think tightvnc uses port 5901 instead of the standard 5900

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