On Sun Dec 08, 2013 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- 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. > It normally does, yes.
> 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.
>
Under the TigerVNC Start Menu group, there should be "VNC Server
(Service-Mode)" and "VNC Server (User-Mode)" sections. Service-Mode will
allow you to run the server as a windows service, starting automatically
at boot time, and User-Mode allows you to run it under the user account
(you can use the Startup group to auto-run it at login).
If you're the only user on the windows machine then you'll probably want
to use service-mode. Start with the "Configure VNC Service" option to
set up the server - the defaults should be okay I think, except you'll
need to set the password (Security tab, Configure button). Then you'll
need to run "Register VNC Service" and "Start VNC Service".
> *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).
>
HTH,
Robin
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