On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:38 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:22 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> No matter how I try when I try to start a vnc session from one of my
> home machines to another I get the error:
>
> [akonstam@vulcan ~]$ vncviewer saturn
>
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built May 17 2006 11:06:32
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See
http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
>
> Fri Dec 29 16:13:43 2006
> main: unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111)
>
> Also when I restart vncserver on the server machine I can't find that
> program running anywhere on the server machine. Can anyone explain all
> this?
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1 - look for Xvnc
2 - vncviewer has man pages - you should read them to know that you need
to designate the 'display' number
3 - vncserver won't run if you haven't run vncpasswd as the user first.
vncserver also has a man page
Craig
Well I got it to work using your hints. But I don't ever remember having
to do this before. But such is life.
Thanks for your response and that of Rick Stevens.
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