Thank you for your suggestions. I think I will be able to get this figured out now. I have been playing with DNS now and I when I get that running I think VNC will stop complaining on startup. I will try your suggestions in the host file while I read up on DNS.
>>-----Original Message----- >>From: Greg Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>I've been playing around with apache setting up virtual servers and >>adding their >> names to my /etc/hosts file. Like this: >> >>127.0.0.0 localhost.localdomain localhost >>192.168.72.85 www.whatever.com www.whenever.com >> > >What is the `hostname` of the machine? >What is the `domainname` of the machine? >For both: type the command at the prompt and see what you get. Then make the >line in /etc/hosts as follows: > >192.168.72.85 <hostname> <hostname>.<domainname> www.whatever.com >www.whenever.com > >> >>When I do this, it works for the web server but it breaks vnc. When I >>start vnc I get: >> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "www:1" in "add" command >>I'm using "vncserver :1 -depth 16" to start vnc. >> > >I'm not sure but I think it is something around addressing or dns. First >update your /etc/hosts file, add the hostname and domainname of the local >machine to it's own line. > >Detail here: Best NOT to call the machine "www", better give it the name of >your mother-in-law or such. So if you ask the machine for it's name >(`hostname`), it responds with the name of your mother-in-law. > >Some points to investigate: > >What if you connect to the vncserver with `vncviewer 192.168.72.85:1`? This >must work. > >What is the hostname of the machine, what do you get from the command >`hostname`? Then try `vncviewer <hostname>:1`. This must also work. > >>The work around I am doing is to comment out the web hosts line in >>my /etc/hosts file, reboot linux, start vnc, uncomment the hosts file >>webserver line, >>restartt apache. This works, but there must be a better way. >> Any body got any ideas? >> > >Update the hostsfile. > > >CBee > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ > > >VNC-List mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > > > >End of VNC-List Digest _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
