James, This worked quite nice. Per your recomendation all was needed was to establish VNC over ssh.
Splendid recomendation. Thank you mark On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, James Weatherall wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:59:10 -0000 > From: James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Mark A. Nelson' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0 > > Mark, > > If user "oracle" is the user that you're running the installer as then > yes, that's the simplest way to get it to work. > > An alternative way to do it, albeit somewhat clumsy, is to use whatever > your currently running VNC X server is, and use SSH to start a session > as user "oracle", for the installation. SSH will then take care of the > access rights to the VNC X server and X applications run from within the > SSH session should be able to display their interfaces in it. > > Cheers, > > Wez @ RealVNC ltd. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark A. Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 24 November 2003 17:54 > > To: James Weatherall > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0 > > > > > > So I need to start up a vnc session as user oracle then? > > > > Thank you > > > > mark > > On Mon, 24 Nov > > 2003, James Weatherall wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:41:01 -0000 > > > From: James Weatherall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0 > > > > > > Mark, > > > > > > This isn't a VNC Server error, it's an error from Oracle - the setup > > > program is trying to access the VNC Server but it's running > > as a user > > > which doesn't have access to that particular VNC Server. The most > > > probable cause is that the VNC Server is running as one > > user while the > > > installer is running as another (such as root). > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > VNC-List mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
