----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com>
> I proceeded to download and install the latest & greatest "stable" > tigervnc on my Windows 7 system, and that all seemed to work OK. > Then I built & installed tigervnc also on my FreeBSD system > (from the ports tree) and that also all seemed to work OK. > > Then, figuring that the Win7 install had started up a tigervnc > server on that (Win7) machine for me, This, I think, is where you fell off. > I just ran vncviewer on the > FreeBSD system (from teh command line). It started up on and then > immediately popped up a little window which asked me for the identity > of the VNC server that I wanted to connect to. I had no idea what > sort of designator I was supposed to enter into that text box, so > I just tried putting in the IP address of my Win7 system (on my > local net, i.e. 192.168.1.178). > > Well, that didn't work. The vncviewer just sat there for awhile > and then informed me: > > CConn: unable connect to socket: Operation timed out (60) > > OK, so what did I do wrong? I think that what you did wrong was to either not tell the Windows machine to start the service when you were asked... or not tell it to start the service even though you weren't asked. :-) I haven't installed Tiger on a Windows box, so I don't know if the installer asks you to set up the Windows Service or not. Check in your Start menu tree, and find TigerVNC, and see if there's a menu option that sounds like "Start Service" or "Install Service". If there is, choose it, and it probably will pop you up a properties dialog asking you to set a server password for that machine. *Then* you can run the viewer from the Linux side, and connect. > How can I tell if my Win7 system is or is not running a server? If you do Ctrl-Alt-Delete, you can start the Task Manager, and you will or won't see a process in the Processes tab labeled with VNC in its name. > What sort of designator does vncviewer need in order to know which > specific server to connect to? Is that a dotted-quad IPv4 address, > or something else? Yes; an IPv4 numeric address (or a working DNS hostname that points to one). Apologies for being a little vague; I got on the list primarily for Linux based questions myself, but I suspect this will be better than nothing. If it doesn't help enough, chime back in. Cheers, -- jra -- Make Election Day a federal holiday: http://wh.gov/lBm94 100k sigs by 12/14 Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
