On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Rajeev Raizada wrote:

Dear VNC-list,

I have the fink tightvnc running on Mac OS X.
When I try the command:

vncserver :1 -localhost

I get this message:
  Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path.
  Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
  Couldn't start Xvnc process.

I have tried a couple of different vncserver fontpaths,
but without success.

I can run the -localhost option fine on regular vnc,
the problem seems only to arise with tightvnc.
I prefer tightvnc because it seems to give a faster server,
but I'd like to run the secure -localhost option if possible.

I also prefer the tightvnc encoding, and I use Mac OS X. I have had great success with OSXvnc from <http://www.redstonesoftware.com/osxvnc>. I did have trouble with the -localhost option (I run the server from the command line: /Applications/Utilities/OSXvnc.app/Contents/MacOS/OSXvnc-server -rfbport 5901 -allowsleep -swapButtons -desktop MacOSX -rfbauth ~/Library/Application\ Support/OSXvnc/osxvnc-passwd 2>> ~/Library/Logs/OSXvnc.log &), though I haven't tried since version 1.1 (it's currently at 1.3). If you don't get the -localhost option to work, you can set ipfw to block access to the port from non-localhost machines. That has worked for me.


Christopher
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