Sonali, > I couldn't start "vncserver :0" on my work.machine because of a > /tmp/.X0-lock file belonging to root that I could not remove. Typing > just "vncserver" on work.machine automatically chooses :1. When I type > "vncserver :0", after the warning about .X0-lock file, it also says "A > VNC server is already running as :0". This is confusing, > because ps does > not show any instance of Xvnc associated with it.
At a guess, that'd be because your computer is running a console X server, which will be X display zero. X displays have nothing to do with VNC desktops, except that by default the VNC server's port number is the X display number plus 5900. > By the way, when I only downloaded vncviewer, somehow it never gave me > the window to set up password, nor could I find an option > where I could > set it up. That is why I downloaded the server, but made it a point to > not start the server on my home computer (I did this once on another > computer, and the vnc was simply making infinite copies of itself!) Why do you need to set up a VNC Server password on the viewer computer, if you're not going to run VNC Server? VNC Viewer prompts you for the password if/when the server requests it. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
