On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Alex Angerhofer wrote:

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Robert Rozman wrote:

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Hi,

I've enabled first vnc service in xinetd. Then I got empty frame with no kde in it, when acessing to ip:1 from winxp.

Then I went further to fiddle with settings and now I'm getting nothing.

What else should I exactly do to enable kde desktop on vnc server ?

You are in luck since I just fiddled with this and am now quite happy with my setup. Since you messed with the settings, you may want to bring them back to the original state before proceeding.

In your case you probably forgot to open up the firewall on port 5901 or 5801 depending on whether you want to use vncviewer or the http protocol on your xp machine. A safer solution is to tunnel through ssh. Point your browser to http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html and confidently apply the recipe given there.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that in order to use ssh from xp you will have to install an X server there. If you don't have one yet, I can recommend cygnus/X as a good solution. Best regards, Alex.

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Sunday 09 January 2005 12:18, Alex Angerhofer wrote:

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Oh, and I forgot to mention that in order to use ssh from xp you will have to install an X server there. If you don't have one yet, I can recommend cygnus/X as a good solution.

Make that "Cygwin/X" (http://x.cygwin.com/). Cygnus was bought out by and absorbed into RedHat several years ago.

Yep, cygwin is what I meant to say. I still keep mixing them up....

On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:05, Scott Leighton wrote:

On Sunday 09 January 2005 12:25 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Sunday 09 January 2005 12:18, Alex Angerhofer wrote:

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Oh, and I forgot to mention that in order to use ssh from xp you will have to install an X server there. If you don't have one yet, I can recommend cygnus/X as a good solution.

Make that "Cygwin/X" (http://x.cygwin.com/). Cygnus was bought out by and absorbed into RedHat several years ago.

I'm not so sure about the x server requirement. I realized you certainly need ssh on the XP box and cygwin does provide ssh, but I see no reason you need X.

I just tried it here, created an ssh tunnel from my XP laptop to my Linux box, then used the Windows TightVNC viewer to access the Linux box via the tunnel. AFAICT, x isn't involved at all in this setup.

Scott

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Robert Rozman wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Angerhofer" To: Cc: "Alex Angerhofer" Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] What exactly to do to get kde running on vnc server and access it from winxp ?

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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Robert Rozman wrote:

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Hi,

I've enabled first vnc service in xinetd. Then I got empty frame with no kde in it, when acessing to ip:1 from winxp.

Then I went further to fiddle with settings and now I'm getting nothing.

What else should I exactly do to enable kde desktop on vnc server ?

You are in luck since I just fiddled with this and am now quite happy with my setup. Since you messed with the settings, you may want to bring them back to the original state before proceeding.

In your case you probably forgot to open up the firewall on port 5901 or 5801 depending on whether you want to use vncviewer or the http protocol on your xp machine. A safer solution is to tunnel through ssh. Point your browser to http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html and confidently apply the recipe given there.

Best regards, Alex. Hi,

I don't have firewall running |(I'm also on local network). I'm just curious. You've enabled vnc in xinetd in yast2, what else did you have to do to get KDE show up on vnc connection ?

I enabled vnc via: yast2 --> Network Services --> Remote Administration --> Allow ... It looks like this provides a switch for the service to be *really* available. I just checked and if I don't have this set I observe the same behavior as you, i.e., a grey screen. HTH, Alex.