michael schuster wrote: > All, > > I hope these are the right places for this question - if not, please > redirect and keep me on CC. thx. > > I've been sucessfully accessing a vnc session running on my > workstation in Menlo Park for the last few weeks. Today I tried to > access this session, only to find that I couldn't unlock this session > if it had been inactive for a few hours. > > here's what I did: > while in the Bay Area > - logged out of my X session on my workstation (just in case anybody > wanted to use it ;-) > - ssh'd into my WS and ran 'vncserver ....' > - ran 'vncviewer ...' > all without issue. Unlocking a session that had been idle overnight or > over the weekend: no problem. > > this morning, in Europe, I > - punched in (to .sfbay) > - tried the same 'vncviewer ...' command. All I got was a black screen > (ie the dialog prompting for my password didn't come up) > - after some time (5 minutes?), I ssh'd into my WS, 'vncserver > -kill'ed the vnc session, started a new one. > - 'vncviewer ...' worked fine (if noticably slower, what a surprise ;-) > - locking and immediately unlocking worked fine. > - punched out (including killing vncviewer), closed down laptop, left > for extended lunch break > - punched back in, vncviewer again shows me only blank screen. I > waited a little, no change. I even tried remote display of a vncviewer > running on my WS (it was sluggish), but I didn't get to unlock the > session. > > TIA for any ideas. > Michael
Do you know about x11vnc? Different in that you run this from within an existing desktop session (or just login remotely and setenv DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY to match an existing session then start it up) and then you access your existing session via vncviewer. It's at least a possible workaround, and may give some diagnostic insight into your scenario above. http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ Lots of people use this to access Sun Ray sessions remotely (e.g. from home) when they don't have access to a physical Sun Ray. Also very useful for remote conferencing/presos when you use the -shared and -viewonly options to allow multiple clients to connect (or drop -viewonly for collaborative troubleshooting e.g. supervised su access). You probably want to use the -many option to allow multiple reconnects. -Bob _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
