Well, I guess I am talking to myself. I figured it out doing what I thought I had done, but apparently had not. I stripped everything back to the basic configuration using root as the user. My inetd.conf looked like: vnc stream tcp nowait root /user/bin/Xvnc Xvnc -inetd -once -query localhost This seemed to work. I then found in the FAQ a note about only being able to run as root that required the following change: chmod 01777 /tmp/.X11-unix I then changed root back to nobody and things are still good to go. One other note. I changed -query localhost to -broadcast and I started attaching to random Linux/Unix/Solaris XDM boxes visible in the broadcast radius. Sort of freaked me out. I had to change it back since I have no interest in connecting to the other machines in a random fashion ;-). I hope that there isn't anything else that I did in all my tinkering that would be required in addition to what I explained above to get things working. BTW, I am using the 3.3.3 R2 version of VNC for Solaris 2.5+. This stuff is great!!! Enjoy! Jeff >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/01 05:19PM >>> Hi all, Just stumbled across VNC and I am impressed and excited. I am running the VNC server on Sun Solaris 8 and using the Windows viewer on Win2000 Pro Sp1. I am now attempting to set it up as an inetd service daemon. However, I am not having any luck. I have searched the mailing list archive and web site, but I am unable to find specific help with the configuration. I am rusty on my Unix so forgive me if I am doing something obviously wrong and additionally, I have not dealt with configuring Xservers. I have the following in my files: ####################################### # #/etc/services: # vnc-1024x768x32 5950/tcp # #/etc/inetd.conf: #I created a script with all the options to start Xvnc so as to not overload the max arg length # vnc-1024x768x32 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/inetd.Xvnc inetd.Xvnc # #/etc/inetd.Xvnc: # /usr/bin/Xvnc -inetd -broadcast -once -desktop dtwm -httpd /usr/vnc/classes -auth /export/vncuser/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 32 -fp /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts -co /usr/X/lib/X11 ####################################### I created a directory called /export/vncuser that has the files the VNC created in my normal user directory. I then made 'nobody' the owner of everything there and below. I reboot the Sun box and launch the viewer on my Win2000 machine. I connect to 'scarab:50' and nothing happens. Previously, I created script to launch Xvnc, I used the command line just as it was listed at (http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm). I did not include the -fp or -co options. At that point instead of doing nothing, it got an "Invalid Protocol" message on the viewer side. Here are my specific questions. - I am a bit unclear as to what happens with NOBODY as the identity used and how it gets the configuration files. Maybe this is not an issue since the PERL script seems to be pulling most the information out for me. It does appear to need the .Xauthority file which I put in the /export/vncuser directory. - As an inetd service, what files does it need access to? - The -co option (color database) specifies the path to what files? The example path did not match what my system uses. - Is there another option I should be specifying? - How does it know what Desktop to launch or does it just launch the general login screen? - If there are web resources I have missed could someone point me there also? Thanks for any info. Hi all, Just stumbled across VNC and I am impressed and excited. I am running the VNC server on Sun Solaris 8 and using the Windows viewer on Win2000 Pro Sp1. I am now attempting to set it up as an inetd service daemon. However, I am not having any luck. I have searched the mailing list archive and web site, but I am unable to find specific help with the configuration. I am rusty on my Unix so forgive me if I am doing something obviously wrong and additionally, I have not dealt with configuring Xservers. I have the following in my files: ####################################### ##/etc/services:#vnc-1024x768x32 5950/tcp ##/etc/inetd.conf:#I created a script with all the options to start Xvnc so as to not overload the max arg length#vnc-1024x768x32 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/inetd.Xvnc inetd.Xvnc ##/etc/inetd.Xvnc:# /usr/bin/Xvnc -inetd -broadcast -once -desktop dtwm -httpd /usr/vnc/classes -auth /export/vncuser/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 32 -fp /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts -co /usr/X/lib/X11 ####################################### I created a directory called /export/vncuser that has the files the VNC created in my normal user directory. I then made 'nobody' the owner of everything there and below. I reboot the Sun box and launch the viewer on my Win2000 machine. I connect to 'scarab:50' and nothing happens. Previously, I created script to launch Xvnc, I used the command line just as it was listed at (http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm). I did not include the -fp or -co options. At that point instead of doing nothing, it got an "Invalid Protocol" message on the viewer side. Here are my specific questions. - I am a bit unclear as to what happens with NOBODY as the identity used and how it gets the configuration files. Maybe this is not an issue since the PERL script seems to be pulling most the information out for me. It does appear to need the .Xauthority file which I put in the /export/vncuser directory. - As an inetd service, what files does it need access to? - The -co option (color database) specifies the path to what files? The example path did not match what my system uses. - Is there another option I should be specifying? - How does it know what Desktop to launch or does it just launch the general login screen? - If there are web resources I have missed could someone point me there also? Thanks for any info. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, I guess I am talking to myself. I figured it out doing what I thought I had done, but apparently had not. I stripped everything back to the basic configuration using root as the user. My inetd.conf looked like: vnc stream tcp nowait root /user/bin/Xvnc Xvnc -inetd -once -query localhost This seemed to work. I then found in the FAQ a note about only being able to run as root that required the following change: chmod 01777 /tmp/.X11-unix I then changed root back to nobody and things are still good to go. One other note. I changed -query localhost to -broadcast and I started attaching to random Linux/Unix/Solaris XDM boxes visible in the broadcast radius. Sort of freaked me out. I had to change it back since I have no interest in connecting to the other machines in a random fashion ;-). I hope that there isn't anything else that I did in all my tinkering that would be required in addition to what I explained above to get things working. BTW, I am using the 3.3.3 R2 version of VNC for Solaris 2.5+. This stuff is great!!! Enjoy! Jeff >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/01 05:19PM >>> Hi all, Just stumbled across VNC and I am impressed and excited. I am running the VNC server on Sun Solaris 8 and using the Windows viewer on Win2000 Pro Sp1. I am now attempting to set it up as an inetd service daemon. However, I am not having any luck. I have searched the mailing list archive and web site, but I am unable to find specific help with the configuration. I am rusty on my Unix so forgive me if I am doing something obviously wrong and additionally, I have not dealt with configuring Xservers. I have the following in my files: ####################################### # #/etc/services: # vnc-1024x768x32 5950/tcp # #/etc/inetd.conf: #I created a script with all the options to start Xvnc so as to not overload the max arg length # vnc-1024x768x32 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/inetd.Xvnc inetd.Xvnc # #/etc/inetd.Xvnc: # /usr/bin/Xvnc -inetd -broadcast -once -desktop dtwm -httpd /usr/vnc/classes -auth /export/vncuser/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 32 -fp /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts -co /usr/X/lib/X11 ####################################### I created a directory called /export/vncuser that has the files the VNC created in my normal user directory. I then made 'nobody' the owner of everything there and below. I reboot the Sun box and launch the viewer on my Win2000 machine. I connect to 'scarab:50' and nothing happens. Previously, I created script to launch Xvnc, I used the command line just as it was listed at (http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm). I did not include the -fp or -co options. At that point instead of doing nothing, it got an "Invalid Protocol" message on the viewer side. Here are my specific questions. - I am a bit unclear as to what happens with NOBODY as the identity used and how it gets the configuration files. Maybe this is not an issue since the PERL script seems to be pulling most the information out for me. It does appear to need the .Xauthority file which I put in the /export/vncuser directory. - As an inetd service, what files does it need access to? - The -co option (color database) specifies the path to what files? The example path did not match what my system uses. - Is there another option I should be specifying? - How does it know what Desktop to launch or does it just launch the general login screen? - If there are web resources I have missed could someone point me there also? Thanks for any info. Hi all, Just stumbled across VNC and I am impressed and excited. I am running the VNC server on Sun Solaris 8 and using the Windows viewer on Win2000 Pro Sp1. I am now attempting to set it up as an inetd service daemon. However, I am not having any luck. I have searched the mailing list archive and web site, but I am unable to find specific help with the configuration. I am rusty on my Unix so forgive me if I am doing something obviously wrong and additionally, I have not dealt with configuring Xservers. I have the following in my files: ####################################### ##/etc/services:#vnc-1024x768x32 5950/tcp ##/etc/inetd.conf:#I created a script with all the options to start Xvnc so as to not overload the max arg length#vnc-1024x768x32 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/inetd.Xvnc inetd.Xvnc ##/etc/inetd.Xvnc:# /usr/bin/Xvnc -inetd -broadcast -once -desktop dtwm -httpd /usr/vnc/classes -auth /export/vncuser/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 32 -fp /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts -co /usr/X/lib/X11 ####################################### I created a directory called /export/vncuser that has the files the VNC created in my normal user directory. I then made 'nobody' the owner of everything there and below. I reboot the Sun box and launch the viewer on my Win2000 machine. I connect to 'scarab:50' and nothing happens. Previously, I created script to launch Xvnc, I used the command line just as it was listed at (http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm). I did not include the -fp or -co options. At that point instead of doing nothing, it got an "Invalid Protocol" message on the viewer side. Here are my specific questions. - I am a bit unclear as to what happens with NOBODY as the identity used and how it gets the configuration files. Maybe this is not an issue since the PERL script seems to be pulling most the information out for me. It does appear to need the .Xauthority file which I put in the /export/vncuser directory. - As an inetd service, what files does it need access to? - The -co option (color database) specifies the path to what files? The example path did not match what my system uses. - Is there another option I should be specifying? - How does it know what Desktop to launch or does it just launch the general login screen? - If there are web resources I have missed could someone point me there also? Thanks for any info. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
