On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 20:57, Adam W wrote: > Simon, > > > HI all, > > I am experimenting with using VNC to access the desktop on my > > LTSP server from my Windows laptop. I can connect OK but all > > I get is a plain grey screen and the mouse curosr, there was > > an app running when I clicked and dragged, I thnk it was > > iconmanager or something similar, however since I closed it, > > I don't even get that anymore.
Sounds to me like xdm [or kdm or gdm or whatever] isn't running, or if it is, it's not connected to [or a child of] the X server you have running there. But, see below... > I cant help you exactly with your problem - if there is one... BUT... I > can tell you that VNC on linux is much different to that on windows. On > linux it is much like a TERMINAL and on windows, you control the local > mouse and keyboard. If you want to control the local mouse and keyboard, > so the mouse moves on the local screen when the VNC mouse moves - > mandrake made some sort of remote desktop app that uses VNC to control > the local K&M. You can achieve the remote-control aspect you're looking for under VNC, but you need to run a program which exports your X display as a VNC stream. There was such a program, called x0rfbserver , available from http://forum.hexenet.de/ . That site, is however, off the air, and the freshmeat entry is gone (WTF?!) I corresponded with [EMAIL PROTECTED], who reported that he was aware it was [temporarily, he hoped] gone upstream, had taken action to keep it in the Gentoo mirrors. It's a package called "rfb". So you should be able to find it by looking for /distfiles/rfb* in the Gentoo section of any major mirror. [Here in .au, I've been using http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo which is a mirror of http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo . I'm not sure what Debian or Red Hat call the package, if anything] If you're not looking for remote control, but just want to access an X desktop, you can do that. I think you're on the right track, but you need to additionally run an X server (which will in turn need to have an xdm/kdm/gdm on it) and have a VNC program attach itself to it. AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 270 5376 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
