Dear Steve, Thank you for your great help. I will be waiting to work on this until I get my new LM8.1 installed. I found the LM8.1 Power Pack when I was out shopping today, so I will be installing it within the next few days. After I get that up and running I will begin setting up the VNC. I may have a few more questions about it at that time. It sounds like a great program. Thanks for the explicit steps. At least I will be setting it up on 8.1 now which may work much better than 8 for it. Thanks again and I will let you know my progress.
Sincerely, Marcia On Saturday 17 November 2001 18:42, you wrote: > Marcia: > > VNC is like PCAnywhere, which allows you to remotely administrate a > computer. You can actually see the other computer in a window on your > desktop. It's pretty cool, but slow over the Internet, so it's very > benificial for LANs. > > > I can't say that I've had any luck with VNC and 8.0; I'm currently working > on it. I finally achieved success with 8.1, and it works well. > > Let me give you a few recources and then I will tell you what I did. > > This is the place there it actually comes from and is a big help - > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ > > This site was also a help and may help you in the future for other things - > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history.php > > Now on to what I had to do. I will try to do this step by step. > > 1. Install VNCServer in the Software Manager if you haven't already. > 2. Open a konsole and tye this: vncserver > You will be asked for a password and then verify it. > You will then see it creating directories and such. > 3. This is where things are different from 8.0. I had to navagate to > /etc/sysconfig in 8.1 and open the vncserver file; it will look something > like this > > > > > # The VNCSERVERS variable is a list of display:user pairs. > # > # Uncomment the line below to start a VNC server on display :1 > # as my 'myusername' (adjust this to your own). You will also > # need to set a VNC password; run 'man vncpasswd' to see how > # to do that. > # > # DO NOT RUN THIS SERVICE if your local area network is > # untrusted! For a secure way of using VNC, see > # <URL:http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html> > > VNCSERVERS="1:yourpassword" (put the password you chose in place of > yourpassword) > > Save changes. You will have to be root to do it. > > Now, again, if were using 8.1 all you would have to do is go to another > machine that has the viewer, and open the viewer. If you are in Linux, you > will probably have to open it from a command line: vncviewer. When the > little windows pops up, just type in the IP address of the machine and the > konsole number whish is the "1" you see in the VNCSERVER line. Like this > Little windows pops up - 192.168.1.5:1 > Then you will be asked for the pass word you entered and off you go! > > Now, with 8.0, I'm not sure. I installed the server and then went to the > command line and typed in vncserver and then put in the password. I then go > to my other machine and follow what I did for 8.1. Unfortunetly, It only > gives me a very meek XWindow manager, not KDE which I prefer. I don't see > the vncserver file like in 8.1. > > I'm still working on what I have to do to get the full desktop, and if I > find anything else out, I will forward the information. > > Please let me know if this has been any help to you. > > Steve > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 03:33 pm, you wrote: > > Dear Steve, > > > > I am interested in using VNC. I have LM8 on my desktop and Windows 98/LM8 > > dual boot on my laptop. Is this like using IP masquerade or is it very > > different from that? > > > > Exactly what other information did you research to learn how to set it > > up? What line did you edit and exactly how? I am quite the newbie when it > > comes to any kind of networking. Thanks alot. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Marcia > > > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 14:53, you wrote: > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Actually, I found the site and some others that were helpful and now I > > > have it up and running on my local network as well as over the net. It > > > works pretty good for what I need it for. > > > > > > All I had to do was edit one line and I was up and going. Oh, yeah, had > > > to change the router to allow outside entry. Not too difficult. > > > > > > Again, thanks. > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:33 pm, you wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > try this one: > > > > > > > > http://www.uk.research.att.com/ > > > > > > > > > Has anyone tried running a VNC server with Mandrake 8.1? I've tried > > > > > but have had no luck, not that I claim to know what I'm going. But > > > > > if anyone could point me to a site or where I could find some > > > > > information, I would be thankful. > > > > > > > > Ivo :) > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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