RE: [expert] TightVNC ?
HaywireMac: Sorry about that. Apparently I am not receiving everything from the list ... probably my fault. I went back and looked at the archive and bingo. Thanks for the reply. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of HaywireMac Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] TightVNC ? On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:59:05 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am running TightVNC under a new install of Mandrake 9.1 with 256MB ram. I boot Mandrake at runlevel 3. If I start vncserver at the the command prompt, then IceWM is served up when I access it from a client. If I startx and then open a command window and run vncserver, I get KDE when I login from a client. The command in both cases is vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 :x. Is it going to different vnc startups based on whether or not I have x started? Even more troubling is trying to use it. Under Ice I get the start button but Mandrake Control Center won't come up. Under KDE, I get the wallpaper and the clipboard and calendar icons and nothing else. It appears hung at that point. Any suggestions? didn't I just post an answer to this yesyerday? no worky? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TightVNC ?
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:13:46 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that. Apparently I am not receiving everything from the list... probably my fault. I went back and looked at the archive and bingo. or maybe messages are rejected from one of Mdk's servers (80.67.180.176) which has no rDNS info -- causes some of us to reject those posts as part of our anti-spam setups... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] TightVNC ?
Exactly, I've got to hurry up and change mail servers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pierre Fortin Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] TightVNC ? On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:13:46 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that. Apparently I am not receiving everything from the list... probably my fault. I went back and looked at the archive and bingo. or maybe messages are rejected from one of Mdk's servers (80.67.180.176) which has no rDNS info -- causes some of us to reject those posts as part of our anti-spam setups... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TightVNC ?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, H. Carter Harris wrote: I am running TightVNC under a new install of Mandrake 9.1 with 256MB ram. I boot Mandrake at runlevel 3. [snip] Even more troubling is trying to use it. Under Ice I get the start button but Mandrake Control Center won't come up. Under KDE, I get the wallpaper and the clipboard and calendar icons and nothing else. It appears hung at that point. Update libqt3 to the version out on the updates mirrrors, it fixes a bug that affects KDE 3.1 running over VNC. Use this page to set up sources: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you *are* the sucker. - Mike McDermott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TightVNC ?
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:59:05 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am running TightVNC under a new install of Mandrake 9.1 with 256MB ram. I boot Mandrake at runlevel 3. If I start vncserver at the the command prompt, then IceWM is served up when I access it from a client. If I startx and then open a command window and run vncserver, I get KDE when I login from a client. The command in both cases is vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 :x. Is it going to different vnc startups based on whether or not I have x started? Even more troubling is trying to use it. Under Ice I get the start button but Mandrake Control Center won't come up. Under KDE, I get the wallpaper and the clipboard and calendar icons and nothing else. It appears hung at that point. Any suggestions? didn't I just post an answer to this yesyerday? no worky? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TightVNC and WM
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:20:45 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am running TightVNC under a new install of Mandrake 9.1 with 256MB ram. I boot Mandrake at runlevel 3. If I start vncserver at the the command prompt, then IceWM is served up when I access it from a client. If I startx and then open a command window and run vncserver, I get KDE when I login from a client. The command in both cases is vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 :x. Is it going to different vnc startups based on whether or not I have x started? Even more troubling is trying to use it. Under Ice I get the start button but Mandrake Control Center won't come up. Under KDE, I get the wallpaper and the clipboard and calendar icons and nothing else. It appears hung at that point. Any suggestions? You want to create a startup script on the server in ~/.vnc called xstartup, and make it executable. mine looks like this: #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script Esetroot -b darkblue exec ~/cvs/pekwm/src/pekwm for IceWM, use whatever path and executable is appropriate. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders' dying words Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] tightvnc startup problem?
You might also need to update your qt libs. Look in MandrakeUpdate and you may see an update for qt that mentions vnc... David -Original Message- From: Vincent Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] tightvnc startup problem? Hi, all I installed and started a tightvnc server on an IPC. I can connect to this IPC from another workstation with no problem. But only icewm is available. If I put the following line in xstartup: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm I got a windows manager after connection established. exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde I got nothing. Why I can't get a KDE desktop? Thanks, - Yahoo! http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/mail_premium/stationery.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc startup problem?
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:42:28 +0800 (CST) Vincent Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde I got nothing. Why I can't get a KDE desktop? try just exec kde -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. -- Stanislaw Lem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc startup problem?
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde I got nothing. Why I can't get a KDE desktop? Just use startkde. Works fine for me: #!/bin/sh startkde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc startup problem?
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 17:42, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I installed and started a tightvnc server on an IPC. I can connect to this IPC from another workstation with no problem. But only icewm is available. If I put the following line in xstartup: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm I got a windows manager after connection established. exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde I got nothing. Why I can't get a KDE desktop? Thanks, In that users directory edit the .desktop file to say KDE instead of IceWM. That should do it. (btw kde will be slower. More graphics.) Oh and you'll need to stop then restart the vncserver to pick up the change. (not just the connection.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc and openssh - channel 2: open failed
I think you're redirecting VNC from 5901 to localhost:5900, but then asking the vncviewer to open on port 5901. What if you do ONE of the following: ssh -L 5901:192.168.0.203:5901 (instead of 5900) -OR- Vncviewer localhost:0 ?? --TwinkieStix On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:00, Simon Ree wrote: Having a problem with tightvnc and openssh. my laptop: 192.168.0.100 sshd server: 192.168.0.203 vncserver: 192.168.0.203 [simon@localhost simon]$ ssh -L 5901:192.168.0.203:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last login: Tue Dec 17 17:43:10 2002 from 192.168.0.100 [system@sales system]$ When I open vncviewer and point it to localhost:1 it bombs with this error: [system@sales system]$ channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused Works great when not using a ssh tunnel. ssh works for everything else. Any thoughts? -- TwinkieStix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc and openssh - channel 2: open failed
TwinkieStix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think you're redirecting VNC from 5901 to localhost:5900, but then asking the vncviewer to open on port 5901. What if you do ONE of the following: ssh -L 5901:192.168.0.203:5901 (instead of 5900) -OR- Vncviewer localhost:0 ?? --TwinkieStix same error plus this output from a new terminal: [simon@localhost simon]$ vncviewer localhost:1 vncviewer: VNC server closed connection [simon@localhost simon]$ The vnc server is set up with the default .mdk.rpm installation. -- Simon Rée [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg62908/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] tightvnc and openssh - channel 2: open failed
Fixed with your suggestion and a reinstall of the server thanks -- Simon Rée [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg62910/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I've got a ~/.vnc/passwd file, but still every time I start vncserver, it asks me to provide a password... What are the exact commands you're using to start the server? You need to specify the password file on the command line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
Hans, Yep if you use the one from MDK on 9.0 it does ask for the password every time and set a password file every time. (just as if it where the first time.) I sure haven't figured out why, the start file on MDK is very different from the stock and I haven't had the time to pull it apart yet... James On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:16, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I've got a ~/.vnc/passwd file, but still every time I start vncserver, it asks me to provide a password... What could be the problem here? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
What is the permissions on the passwd file in the .vnc directory in ur home? -Sridhar SainTiss wrote: Hi, I've got a ~/.vnc/passwd file, but still every time I start vncserver, it asks me to provide a password... What could be the problem here? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:42, Sridhar wrote: What is the permissions on the passwd file in the .vnc directory in ur home? -Sridhar Sridhar it creates the permissions right 664 and the user right on the file... It just doesn't tell it to do 2 things 1. check to see if it's there. 2. read it after the above. MDK has hacked pretty heavy on this startup to get it not to default to twm (the default on a normal tightvnc install) and in this version what it does is find out that users default wm and use that. But the downside is that something here got ooops and missed. The hack to fix it is somewhere in MDK's startup script for vncserver. My guess is that a typo or an extra dd in vi dropped a line of code. James SainTiss wrote: Hi, I've got a ~/.vnc/passwd file, but still every time I start vncserver, it asks me to provide a password... What could be the problem here? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
James, I went thro' the startup script and found it was related to a permission problem. The way I solved it was to make the 'passwd' file in my .vnc folder to be -rwx--. It was not like this before. This is related to the code in the startup script, must be a bug. Cheers Sridhar James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:42, Sridhar wrote: What is the permissions on the passwd file in the .vnc directory in ur home? -Sridhar Sridhar it creates the permissions right 664 and the user right on the file... It just doesn't tell it to do 2 things 1. check to see if it's there. 2. read it after the above. MDK has hacked pretty heavy on this startup to get it not to default to twm (the default on a normal tightvnc install) and in this version what it does is find out that users default wm and use that. But the downside is that something here got ooops and missed. The hack to fix it is somewhere in MDK's startup script for vncserver. My guess is that a typo or an extra dd in vi dropped a line of code. James SainTiss wrote: Hi, I've got a ~/.vnc/passwd file, but still every time I start vncserver, it asks me to provide a password... What could be the problem here? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
Could be... I'll have to try it later. Thanks. James On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:21, Sridhar wrote: James, I went thro' the startup script and found it was related to a permission problem. The way I solved it was to make the 'passwd' file in my .vnc folder to be -rwx--. It was not like this before. This is related to the code in the startup script, must be a bug. Cheers Sridhar James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:42, Sridhar wrote: What is the permissions on the passwd file in the .vnc directory in ur home? -Sridhar Sridhar it creates the permissions right 664 and the user right on the file... It just doesn't tell it to do 2 things 1. check to see if it's there. 2. read it after the above. MDK has hacked pretty heavy on this startup to get it not to default to twm (the default on a normal tightvnc install) and in this version what it does is find out that users default wm and use that. But the downside is that something here got ooops and missed. The hack to fix it is somewhere in MDK's startup script for vncserver. My guess is that a typo or an extra dd in vi dropped a line of code. James SainTiss wrote: Hi, I've got a ~/.vnc/passwd file, but still every time I start vncserver, it asks me to provide a password... What could be the problem here? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sridhar wrote on Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:21:54PM -0700 : James, I went thro' the startup script and found it was related to a permission problem. The way I solved it was to make the 'passwd' file in my .vnc folder to be -rwx--. It was not like this before. This is related to It was like that in 8.1 and 8.2. The issue is that it needs to tell you that the permissions are incorrect, not just go straight into a password prompt. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-2mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9+m/olp7v05cW2woRAo3IAJ9fXG4Lsybv+CGKl3r01yCDSRAheACfRljK ZEGH+Um6eNo02NnWpG/mcjc= =4DyH -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tightvnc ignoring passwd file?
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It was like that in 8.1 and 8.2. The issue is that it needs to tell you that the permissions are incorrect, not just go straight into a password prompt. Blue skies... Todd Yes, that's right. The script needs to be modified to take care of this. -Sridhar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
