With assistance from this site and from Rob van der Heij ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -
see original question below), I have successfully installed VNC on a SuSE
Linux distribution for S390. Using a Windows 2000 client and a browser
(either IE or Netscape), I am able to login to a VNC X-windows session and
execute commands from the telnet window without any problems. I found that
the vncviewer.exe does not work when going to S390, but it does work going
to my PC SuSE Linux system. Further, on S390, I can bring up a WebSphere
administration client which uses X-windows and it all works great. My
problem is that I am unable to successfully get kde to run. When starting,
it makes it to "kpanel: starting window manager" and then goes no further.
At this point, the kde desktop background is painted and the desktop icons
are displayed. It appears to stop just before displaying the icon tray
at the bottom of the screen. I can click on any icon on the desktop and it
will open the window, but if I try to do anything with a drop down window,
the window is empty. While trying to debug this, I noticed missing fonts
and a missing rgb.txt file, but that has all been corrected and I get no
errors when the vncserver come up. I know the kde works because I can use
it successfully when I go in using Hummingbird Exceed. I also tried
replacing twm in the xstartup for vnc with kde. The symptoms were the
same. It just ran slower. Does anyone have a clue on where to go from
here?
To: Doug Yellick/Charlotte/IBM@IBMUS
cc:
Subject: Re: FW: X-masgift: VNC ported to S/390
> address what I am trying to do, but I can not connect to the FTP sites
> you listed (penguinvm4.princeton.edu) to get the doc. Do you know what
> the new ip or domain name would be. It always times out for me and I
> can not ping the address. Any assistance would be appreciated.
How time flies.. penguinvm4 is not anymore... Princeton ran
out of spare S/390 resources some time ago.
ftp://ftp.iae.nl/pub/users/rvdheij/vnc/
This should get you a working vnc on SuSE. You may want to check my
presentation on X-Windows, VNC, SSH forwarding, compression, etc.
http://www.vm.ibm.com:2003/pdfs/L42.pdf
Check again with me if you have trouble. Rob
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