> -----Original Message----- > From: Harry Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Thank you CBee! I only provided the pointers, thank the page-writers. > > The instructions you mentioned at > http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp are > awesome, and all > works great now. One important note (and this may be related to the > problems I was initially having) is that for the above method > to work, you > need to set initdefault in inittab to "5". I had it at "3" because I > prefer the console login, but it is a small price to pay for > such a cool > interface to vnc!
You can also update the runlevels at which the display managers are started. They are neded to answer the xdmcp protocol. Unfortunatly, on most linux distros, the window managers, display managers and Xserver are mixed like cooked spagetti. I don't know why but on my RedHat servers, (7.x versions), the xdm is started from inittab, not from the rc.x scripts, which is not how it should be, however it is acceptable to a point. Then, the X11 server (XFree) is started from the xdm script, which is absolutly wrong, specially for servers which tend to be headless. >From my point of view, there should be init scripts for both xdm and x11. Then you could start xdm without the overhead of a local X11 server. On my HP-UX machines, there is no Xserver at all. Xdm is available for remote Xservers (with CDE, a commercial variant of KDE). > >>>>>>>previous communications removed <<<<<<<<< > CBee _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
