Hopefully someone can help me here. I have spent many hours over the last 2 weeks trying to get this to work.
Originally I had VNC working fine between 2 Win98 machines. I then installed Linux (Mandrake 8.2) on the server. I am a complete Linux newbie, so I am betting the problem lies somewhere in my inexperience. I run the viewer and it prompts me for the password. I enter it and it opens up the screen. It is the same gray background as when my KDE desktop first opens, with an X for the mouse pointer - except that is all I get - a gray background. After reading VNC's sparse directions, I realized it was telling me to start an Xterm session just for VNC. Eventually I realized that Xterm wasn't installed, so I got that loaded OK. So I did like they say and ran: xterm -display server:1 & It replied with a number 61xx. Sorry, I don't recall right now - this was at midnite last night. Is the number a good thing or a bad thing? In any case, it made no difference. All I get is that gray screen. Oh, it does list at the top that I am looking at "Root's Desktop" which is strange because I am not logged in as root on the linux box. Where can I start looking for the problem? Any clues? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
