Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Bob McCarthy
Tom and Richard, Prior to the previously mentioned changes that we made, we received t he blank screen as Tom stated, prior to receiving any prompt for userid or password. The linux session showed that we were logged in, but the timeou t occurred later. Bob

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Hi Richard I tried following what you suggested... No avail. However it dawned on me that I never got the prompt for the password to get into VNC. (VNC Authentication window) I suspect the timeout I get after two minutes is VNCs response to no password. So, when you are doing the "click and ho

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Richard Troth
Hi, Bob, -- I use VNC rather heavily. >From Tom's report, you may be having a different "error" than I am used to. Also, contrary to Tom's suggestion, I don't start VNC as a service, but run it from "user space" (even though perhaps running as root) ... sign on, do a 'vncserver' command, then con

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I tested it out on my SLES 11 SP 1 system. (It was installed using "ssh".) I had to allow remote installation. That caused the VNC software to be installed. When I used "tightvnc" to get into it, I also got a blank screen and the connection timed out after 2 minutes. I'm on a z/890, which is no

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Since you didn't mention that you did might as well to cover all bases... After an install and the reboot, vncserver isn't automatically started. You can do a "vncserver start" from root and/or set it to automatically start in the yast dialog. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (Sometimes I think

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Bob McCarthy
We are at SUSE 11 SP1 and we did install updates installing from the medi a. We do have a subscription to SUSE and found that this is a known problem that will be fixed in SUSE 11.3. As far as the change to the Xstartup fil e, we have not specified either twm or mwm. We donot have an executable

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-06 Thread Chu, Raymond C.
Look into the /home/userid/.vnc/xstartup file. Change twm to mwm. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 5:12 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer You

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/5/2011 at 04:14 PM, Bob McCarthy wrote: > We use VNC Viewer for the gui requirements for installing our zLinux > systems and other related software. Everthing worked fine with SUSE10. > SUSE11 installs fine with VNC Viewer. Once the SUSE11 installation is > complete, VNC View no longer

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] SUSE11 and VNC Viewer We use VNC Viewer for the gui requirements for installing our zLinux systems and other related software. Everthing worked fine with SUSE10. = SUSE11 installs fine with VNC Viewer. Once the SUSE11 installation is complete, VNC View no

Re: SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-05 Thread Tim McCluskey
Hello, Sorry for the intrusion. I'm trying to get off this distribution list, but not quite sure how to proceed. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Regards, Tim On Jul 5, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Bob McCarthy wrote: > We use VNC Viewer for the gui requirements for installing our zLinux > sys

SUSE11 and VNC Viewer

2011-07-05 Thread Bob McCarthy
We use VNC Viewer for the gui requirements for installing our zLinux systems and other related software. Everthing worked fine with SUSE10. SUSE11 installs fine with VNC Viewer. Once the SUSE11 installation is complete, VNC View no longer seems to function, when we attempt install other softw