Reply With QuoteAre you connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1 (1 being desktop 1) ?? If so, I suspect that VNC is not running. What does ps -ef|grep vnc reveal on the linux host? I'm assuming FC5 or FC6 BTW?
Looking for some help on getting VNC working so that I can remotely contol my Linux box using my XP laptop. Using a home office network setup (DLink wireless router WBR2310).
I'm no network guy. I got the router up and running kind of 'out of the box' .. .turned on WEP and set it loose. The reason I say this is I think it might be a network issue but I'm sure I have config issues with VNC as well.
So far I went to pirut and made sure that vnc and vnc-server were installed. Once they were I went to terminal and ran the vncserver commands to start the service (though strangely I cannot seem to turn on the service using the 'Services' application). Seemed like it was fine so I went to my XP laptop and tried connecting using VNC Viewer and I got host was not found errors. I renamed my hostname on the Linux box and tried that. Nothing. Then I tried connecting with IP address. Still no joy so I tried pinging Linux box using XP laptop and got response back.
On the router, the hostname for my Linux box appears as 'unknown' whereas others appear correctly
Are you connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1 (1 being desktop 1) ?? If so, I suspect that VNC is not running. What does ps -ef|grep vnc reveal on the linux host? I'm assuming FC5 or FC6 BTW?
[Joe@JoesLinuxBox ~]$ ps -ef|grep vnc
I just killed all prior instances that were running. When I try by hostname to connect to JoesLinuxBox:1 I get:Joe 15380 1 0 16:51 ? 00:00:00 Xvnc :1 -desktop FC6 -httpd /usr/share/vnc/classes -auth /tmp/.gdmV1B4JT -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -rfbwait 30000 -rfbauth /home/Joe/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -pn
Joe 15384 1 0 16:51 ? 00:00:00 vncconfig -iconic
Joe 17736 17666 0 19:59 pts/0 00:00:00 grep vnc
by IP address 192.168.0.104:1 ... I getunable to resolve host by name: No such host is known (11001)
'Attempting to connect to host' and then 'unable to connect to host. Connection timed out (10060)'
Try this:
Code:[wayne@cfms3 ~]$ sudo netstat -pantu|grep 5901 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5901 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3144/Xvnc
[root@JoesLinuxBox ~]# sudo netstat -pantu|grep 5901
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5901 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15380/Xvnc
You're using a router, not a basic WAP device? Is it possible that the router is blocking port 5901? Not sure the topology of your network.
That's what I was thinking.Originally Posted by Outlaw
It's just a consumer-grade wireless router that has four wireless and one wired host attached to it. Like I said, just out of the box, turn on WEP and that's pretty much it.
I would not have opened or blocked a port intentionally. I just have to figure out how to do that on my particular router.
OK. Just opened port forwarding for 5901. Still no joy.
Also I ran vncserver to see if I could create an instance and I got this error right away:
xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "JoesLinuxBox:2" in "add" command
New 'JoesLinuxBox:2 (root)' desktop is JoesLinuxBox:2
Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/JoesLinuxBox:2.log
If you have a simple hub, I would satisfy myself that I can connect to services on the Linux box using that device first and rule those out as potential issues. That would make the router and/or its config highly suspect. As far as the second VNC display, is that a real user on the box?
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