vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
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! Following is the vnc log for this session, and I am unable to decipher what I am doing incorrectly, and, as mentioned, need help 08/12/00 10:39:35 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2 08/12/00 10:39:35 Copyright (C) ATT Laboratories Cambridge. 08/12/00 10:39:35 All Rights Reserved. 08/12/00 10:39:35 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC 08/12/00 10:39:35 Desktop name 'X' (pieno:4) 08/12/00 10:39:35 Protocol version supported 3.3 08/12/00 10:39:35 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5904 08/12/00 10:39:35 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5804 08/12/00 10:39:35 URL http://pieno:5804 08/12/00 10:41:17 Got connection from client 205.xxx.xx.xxx 08/12/00 10:41:18 Protocol version 3.3 08/12/00 10:42:15 rfbAuthProcessClientMessage: authentication failed from 205.xxx.xx.xxx 08/12/00 10:42:15 Client 205.xxx.xx.xxx gone 08/12/00 10:42:15 Statistics: 08/12/00 10:42:15 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0 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 suing, opening and scanning the log, looking for a smarter way. Sorry for the dumb question. Thanks very much, -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
-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 suing, 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-
Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Giulio Morgan wrote: 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 password that is stored in ~/.vnc/passwd is encrypted. Use vncpasswd to set or change it.
Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
Giulio Morgan wrote: snip Any thoughts will be much appreciated. Also, one trivial question, what is the easiest way for me to determine my ip address. If you install the ipmasq package it has a very nice script called ipofif which does some regexp stuff to the output of ifconfig and leaves you with your ip address(es). If you don't really want ipmasq installed, you could always install the package, copy ipofif someplace else then remove the package... HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users.aber.ac.uk/tgb96/ Space Robotics Team | Office: (01970) 621528 University of Wales, Aberystwyth | Mobile: (07971) 219986
Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. 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. Thank you Phil, that was it!. Now, one more question, how do I make the connection through an ssh tunnel (I can make a terminal ssh connection - via putty - I just don't know how to use ssh to connect to the vnc server). Thanks again Peter -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Thank you Phil, that was it!. Now, one more question, how do I make the connection through an ssh tunnel (I can make a terminal ssh connection - via putty - I just don't know how to use ssh to connect to the vnc server). Thanks again If you're going to use putty to ssh to the Linux box I think you're out of luck - putty doesn't know how to do TCP forwarding (needed for X11 forwarding), and the author isn't planning on implementing that functionality (according to the author's wishlist web page at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html). SecureCRT 3.x *does* do TCP forwarding, however, but it's payware. - -- - -- 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 iD8DBQE6MSul/ZTSZFDeHPwRAtH5AKCLjBJ+LsPepcQttk+NU9tvlmfSQACg0DnB TafDIcHQhV5yop0OMIoPnTw= =qAfg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: VNC Problem
did you install the debian package vncserver? if so it should work, now if you tried to download the version off their site you may not have the proper stuff installed, are you using potato(2.2) or slink(2.1) -- of debian ? nate On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: jschep I'm sharing 1 monitor between computers. I installed the VNCserver package jschep on my debian box. I've also installed VNC viewer on my windoze box. I'm jschep getting a fatal server error when running the server. Something about my jschep 'font' path not being valid. When the vncserver starts up, it looks for a jschep few fonts and evidently there's something wrong with my font path. I don't jschep know how to edit this stuff so I'd greatly appreciate any help. jschep jschep thanks, jschep Jason jschep jschep jschep jschep jschep jschep -- jschep Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null jschep ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:47pm up 12 days, 7:15, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00
VNC Problem
I'm sharing 1 monitor between computers. I installed the VNCserver package on my debian box. I've also installed VNC viewer on my windoze box. I'm getting a fatal server error when running the server. Something about my 'font' path not being valid. When the vncserver starts up, it looks for a few fonts and evidently there's something wrong with my font path. I don't know how to edit this stuff so I'd greatly appreciate any help. thanks, Jason
