All, I hope these are the right places for this question - if not, please redirect and keep me on CC. thx.
I've been sucessfully accessing a vnc session running on my workstation in Menlo Park for the last few weeks. Today I tried to access this session, only to find that I couldn't unlock this session if it had been inactive for a few hours. here's what I did: while in the Bay Area - logged out of my X session on my workstation (just in case anybody wanted to use it ;-) - ssh'd into my WS and ran 'vncserver ....' - ran 'vncviewer ...' all without issue. Unlocking a session that had been idle overnight or over the weekend: no problem. this morning, in Europe, I - punched in (to .sfbay) - tried the same 'vncviewer ...' command. All I got was a black screen (ie the dialog prompting for my password didn't come up) - after some time (5 minutes?), I ssh'd into my WS, 'vncserver -kill'ed the vnc session, started a new one. - 'vncviewer ...' worked fine (if noticably slower, what a surprise ;-) - locking and immediately unlocking worked fine. - punched out (including killing vncviewer), closed down laptop, left for extended lunch break - punched back in, vncviewer again shows me only blank screen. I waited a little, no change. I even tried remote display of a vncviewer running on my WS (it was sluggish), but I didn't get to unlock the session. TIA for any ideas. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
