In message <26596822.196.1386557862358.javamail.r...@benjamin.baylink.com>, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote:
>> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> >> >> 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. Yes, it would appear so. Thanks! >> 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 wasn't ever asked. But if I had thought about it for a few seconds, I suppose that I really should have realized that for any sensible kind of network-enabled "server" type thingy, it is bloody obvious that at some point it will be necessary to establish a password for the thing... _and_ I suppose that I also should have realized that the simple fact that I hadn't done that, (or even been asked to do that) indicated, logically, that I had not actually and properly set up the server part of this connection. Oh well. I know now. >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. Got it. Thanks again. Regards, rfg P.S. Being a brand new newbie, I probably shouldn't start out, right off the bat, making suggestions to the developers, however that never having stopped me before.... I do believe that the install process, in particular for Windows (where things like man pages generally don't exist) could perhaps benefit from the addition of some little pop-up note or something, telling the newbie user, in effect "Hey dude! If you desire to run the TigerVNC *server* on this machine, then you will also also need to do thus-and-such, after the basic install process completes." Just a thought. Probably worth what you paid for it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
