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Re: X on a virtual server



On 06/27/11 at 01:49am, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> On 6/26/11, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > x11vnc is for creating a VNC instance to an existing X server. You just want
> > a VNC server: look into tightvncserver.
> 
> Yes, that is what I have running now, I think <g>
> 
> >From 'ps ax':
> 
> 27765 pts/1    S      0:00 Xtightvnc :01 -desktop X -auth /home/bob/.Xauthority
> 27772 pts/1    Sl     0:00 gnome-session
> 27775 pts/1    S      0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 5
> 27777 pts/1    S      0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
> 
> I cannot, however, connect from my remote machine. Even if I turn off
> the firewalls at both ends of the link, I get a "connection refused"
> when I run vncviewer. I can't even nping to port 5901, which is what
> is configured. I have run xhost + to add both client and server to
> access list.
> 
> Some unix weirdness somewhere....
> 

I *think* you want Xtightvnc :1, not :01? 
Anyway, what does `netstat -nlp |grep vnc` output? Do you see any errors from
running VNC?

-- 
Liam

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