Hi, I have a puzzling situation with connecting to a remote desktop on
a local network. 3 (k)ubuntu boxes - mercury (lucid - a desktop
machine), jupiter (8.04.4 LTS) and neptune (a virtual machine under
VMWare Server 2 running on jupiter).
Name resolution is via an IPCop box static lease and hosts entries.
Boxes can be pinged by name, I can ssh to them and confirm it's
hostname, and that mac address of the ethernet card and IP address match
with what IPCop shows.
Desktop sharing is turned on on both jupiter and neptune.
Occasionally I need to view jupiter's desktop, from mercury all attempts
to establish a vnc connection via either KRDC or Remote Desktop Viewer,
by name or by IP address, give me neptune's desktop.
My guess remains as it being some vmware weirdness, but I'm out of
specific ideas and my googling hasn't found anything useful beyond ssh,
hostnames etc as per the above, can anyone suggest steps to resolve this?
Cheers,
Roger
