On Friday 25 March 2005 13:34, DAN WALKER wrote:
My vnc server now sort of works! I set the password, edited hosts.allow and my pc side now asks me for a password and presents me with a red screen. The problem I have is that it looks as though it has nothing to do when it opens the window. It sits there with the X style (not kde or gnome) watch icon. This is what is in '/root/.vnc/xstartup': (between the ***'s)
*** #!/bin/sh
# Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
***
You are allowing remote users to log in as root. As you know logging in as root is discouraged. It is a security risk.
Assuming you used the Mandrake tightvnc-server package then you have a set up file for your vnc server in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
This file defines the servers to be started when you boot.
The line
VNCSERVERS="1:myusername"
will start a vnc server on screen one with the user name 'myusername'
chkconfig vncserver on && service vncserver start will start the vnc service automatically at boot.
In your example you are starting the vnc server with 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' if you look in that file you will see it is going to start X without a Window Manager.
In my 10.1 setup, the last line of this file is:
exec /etc/X11/Xsession $*
This is the script that normaly starts X. If a desktop is not specified when calling the script, it will use the one in the user's home directory .desktop, if there is one, or the one specified in /etc/sysconfig/desktop.
With the problem he is having, I suspect that there may not be any window manager installed. For that matter, xterm and rxvt may not be installed.To start in KDE for example in your /home/myusername/.vnc/xstartup file put startkde &
To start fluxbox put fluxbox &
to start IceWm put icewm &
HTH derek
Mikkel --
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