-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I am trying, unsuccessfully, to make a VNC connection from Windows98 (office > of > my client) to my woody machine. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something about > the usage of VNC, and if anyone could help, I would really appreciate it. > > I start the vncserver by > $ vncserver :4, > then check for my password in ~/.vnc/passwd. I discover it to be > \111A\222\333P\444L\555, > > I then launch vncviewer from the windows machine, and am prompted for the > address I wish to establish a connection to, I type in "my dynamic ip > address:4", and I am then prompted for "session password", and type > \111A\222\333P\444L\555, > and I get a notification: VNC authentication failed! The text you see in ~/.vnc/passwd is the encrypted form of the password you assigned the connection - something is very wrong if you can enter the encrypted password and gain access to the X11 session. Try running vncpasswd to re-assign your password. [snip] > 08/12/00 10:42:15 rfbAuthProcessClientMessage: authentication failed from > 205.xxx.xx.xxx Umm... wrong password? [snip] > Any thoughts will be much appreciated. Also, one trivial question, what is the > easiest way for me to determine my ip address. Currently, I check the ppp log > which identifies the address of the local and remote machines when a connetion > is established. This involves "su"ing, opening and scanning the log, looking > for a smarter way. Sorry for the dumb question. Several ways: * /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 * add yourself to the adm group so that you can read many of the files under /var/log with impunity - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6MRhX/ZTSZFDeHPwRAmgbAJ0V1r6yThJz9CxiL1KYDOqOTY7+bQCcCf/i 73KksTPW8GNJefC4vrrlPP4= =d48f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----