Sorry, sent this to ray, but should have been to the group! ----- Original Message ----- From: "ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Scottish] Sending display to another machine
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 17:11, Allan Bruce wrote: > > the windows and "taskbar" appear for a few > > milliseconds and then disappear. So there is nothing I can on the desktop > > at all > > I do not understand. As the KDE machine is headless, I take it that you are > having problems with the MS-Windows box? If you want specific rather than > generic help you will have to be a bit more specific about your set-up and > what you have done/installed where. ok, specifics inline! > > Are you using a "standard" Linux distribution? If so which one? Mandrake 9.1 > What version of KDE are you using? 3.1.3 IIRC > What version of XFree86 / VNC is installed? X 4.0.3, RealVNC 3.3.7 > Are you in run level 5? nope, 3 > Is there a special reason for running the (many years obsolete/insecure) > telnet daemon rather than openssh? yes, I am within my local LAN so security is not an issue. I use SSH to remote login to work, but I have not set up an ssh server on the linux box yet. Any hints as to how I start with this? > > What version of MS-Windows are you using? XP SP1 > Have you installed an X server and/or VNC on the MS box? If so which versions? just TightVNC as per your recommendation v1.2.9 (also tried RealVNC but no luck) > Is the MS-Windows installation "clean" or do you have anti-virus, port > blocking, etc. software running? No anit-virus and no port blocking - I have IPv6 installed on both machines though. > If the reason for telnet is because you do not have a MS-Windows ssh client, > you should get putty.exe and set the keyboard for the Linux session to > XtermR6. > > Is your intention to be able to open a window on th MS box and perform a > graphical login to a KDE session on the Linux box? That would be great. I want a decent looking desktop, not just the plain X, but if thats all I can get then it will do (as long as I can get access to the (dare I say it) "start" menu) Thanks Allan _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish