I setup VNC server on one machine and VNC view on the other through NFS TCP/IP network. Can get the VNC viewer to connect, but all I get is a black screen. The appears to be because VNC server is working with display 1 when I need it to work with display 0. That is, I want to see the same display on my computer that is on the other. Does anyone know how to set this up? Art
On Saturday 24 August 2002 9:09 pm, Art Fore wrote:
I setup VNC server on one machine and VNC view on the other through NFS TCP/IP network. Can get the VNC viewer to connect, but all I get is a black screen. The appears to be because VNC server is working with display 1 when I need it to work with display 0. That is, I want to see the same display on my computer that is on the other. Does anyone know how to set this up?
Art
Hello Art, When you start a VNC server, you are starting an(other) instance of an X server. In your ~/.vnc directory, a file called xstartup needs to exist to start your window manager and any apps. It is correct that it would be on display :1 in this case. Subsequent VNC servers would be on :2, :3, ..., :N. On a Windows machine, starting a VNC server actually does use the existing display, but this is not the case in Linux. Now, in theory, is it possible in Linux to start the VNC server instead of some other X server on display :0? Of that I'm not certain (but I doubt it). What I typically do is run some minimal window manager on display :0 and immediately fire up a VNC server and do all of my work in there. Its not quite what you reqeusted, but perhaps it will suffice. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time. Art On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 18:59, Andy Stewart wrote:
On Saturday 24 August 2002 9:09 pm, Art Fore wrote:
I setup VNC server on one machine and VNC view on the other through NFS TCP/IP network. Can get the VNC viewer to connect, but all I get is a black screen. The appears to be because VNC server is working with display 1 when I need it to work with display 0. That is, I want to see the same display on my computer that is on the other. Does anyone know how to set this up?
Art
Hello Art,
When you start a VNC server, you are starting an(other) instance of an X
server. In your ~/.vnc directory, a file called xstartup needs to exist to start your window manager and any apps. It is correct that it would be on display :1 in this case. Subsequent VNC servers would be on :2, :3, ..., :N.
On a Windows machine, starting a VNC server actually does use the existing display, but this is not the case in Linux. Now, in theory, is it possible in Linux to start the VNC server instead of some other X server on display :0? Of that I'm not certain (but I doubt it).
What I typically do is run some minimal window manager on display :0 and
immediately fire up a VNC server and do all of my work in there. Its not quite what you reqeusted, but perhaps it will suffice.
Later,
Andy
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On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc. Greg Engel
On Sunday 25 August 2002 12:17 pm, Greg Engel wrote:
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc.
After looking on the VNC website, I discovered a tool called x0rfbserver, which will take an existing display and "export" it such that a remote VNC viewer can see it. I think this is the tool that Art is seeking. The URL is: http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html I tried it out and it made my :0 display available to a VNC viewer on another machine on my home network. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
Hi all,
I have been following this thread and I wonder is there a similar
prog/utility to grab a current console session?
This would be very handy for me where I have multiple PC's running seti@home
with no monitors, keyboards etc.
I need to access them from time to time and start up a new session (after a
power cut or such like). At the moment I have to connect a monitor
and keyboard to each unit, start it up and then switch to the next one. If I
telnet, I am going in on a pseudo terminal where I want to actually take
over the
console and see what is on there. I hope you all understand what I
mean........
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Keith Gibbons,
StarDate Computer Service,
SCS House, Garrymore,
Geashill, Co.Offaly,
Ireland.
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From: "Andy Stewart"
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc.
After looking on the VNC website, I discovered a tool called x0rfbserver,
which will take an existing display and "export" it such that a remote VNC
viewer can see it. I think this is the tool that Art is seeking.
The URL is:
http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html
I tried it out and it made my :0 display available to a VNC viewer on
another
machine on my home network.
Later,
Andy
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From: "Andy Stewart"
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc.
After looking on the VNC website, I discovered a tool called x0rfbserver, which will take an existing display and "export" it such that a remote VNC viewer can see it. I think this is the tool that Art is seeking. The URL is: http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html I tried it out and it made my :0 display available to a VNC viewer on another machine on my home network. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:27:14 +0100
"Keith Gibbons"
Hi all, I have been following this thread and I wonder is there a similar prog/utility to grab a current console session?
This would be very handy for me where I have multiple PC's running seti@home with no monitors, keyboards etc. I need to access them from time to time and start up a new session (after a power cut or such like). At the moment I have to connect a monitor and keyboard to each unit, start it up and then switch to the next one. If I telnet, I am going in on a pseudo terminal where I want to actually take over the console and see what is on there. I hope you all understand what I mean........
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but you shouldn't need to go thru the "swap monitor and keyboard routine everytime there is a power outage". You should have each machine setup so that it will startup by itself with a power-off/power-on. Set the bios up so the machines WILL NOT halt on "no-keyboard errors", and have the sshd daemon start automatically. After a power outage, you should be able to restart each machine, wait for the boot process to finish, then ssh into the machine. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
Turns out the "rfb" package is included with SuSE 8.0. Installed it and it gives me both the x0rfbserver and xrfbviewer. Works great. Couldn't find any documentation on how to operate it, but just executed the programs and is was rather intuitive on how to get it going. Art On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 11:26, Andy Stewart wrote:
On Sunday 25 August 2002 12:17 pm, Greg Engel wrote:
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc.
After looking on the VNC website, I discovered a tool called x0rfbserver, which will take an existing display and "export" it such that a remote VNC viewer can see it. I think this is the tool that Art is seeking.
The URL is:
http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html
I tried it out and it made my :0 display available to a VNC viewer on another machine on my home network.
Later,
Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
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On Saturday 24 August 2002 21:28, you wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
An excellent utility for that is the KRfb tool, which is a frontend to the RFB protocol used by VNC. Essentially, you would instal KRfb on your wife's computer. When she wants help, she would click on the KRfb icon (which essentially starts the VNC service on her system). You would then launch vnc client to request a connection to her system; she would be prompted to accept/deny giving you control of her desktop. We use this where I work, and it works just fine. -Thomas Long tlong@eskimo.com -- Using SuSE Linux 7.3
When I run ./configure, I get an error that gcc cannot compile. Version is 2.95.3-216 for gcc. Why would this be? Do I install gcc30 3.0.4-25? Art On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 15:23, Thomas Long wrote:
On Saturday 24 August 2002 21:28, you wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
An excellent utility for that is the KRfb tool, which is a frontend to the RFB protocol used by VNC. Essentially, you would instal KRfb on your wife's computer. When she wants help, she would click on the KRfb icon (which essentially starts the VNC service on her system). You would then launch vnc client to request a connection to her system; she would be prompted to accept/deny giving you control of her desktop. We use this where I work, and it works just fine.
-Thomas Long tlong@eskimo.com
-- Using SuSE Linux 7.3
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