Greetings, One more, the blasted VNC was working last week on tuesday, after I was finished using it , I turned it off. On friday I turned it on again with yast, there were no errors, on screen or in the logs, but it didn't present the remote user with the kdm login screen. Instead it logged in directly to tvm. I have played around since then and now it fails to start with the same old error: ========================================================== chadlap:~ # rcxinetd restart Shutting down xinetd: done Starting INET services. (xinetd) failed chadlap:~ # tail -f /var/log/messages Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing uucp Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing vnc2 Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing vnc3 Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing vnchttpd1 Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing vnchttpd2 Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing vnchttpd3 Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: removing ftp Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: bind failed (Address already in use (errno = 98)). service = vnc1 Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: Service vnc1 failed to start and is deactivated. Dec 5 12:35:25 chadlap xinetd[20946]: 20946 {init_services} no services. Exiting... ============================================================ Looks like DNS but how do I fix it? If my hosts file is right, and so is my resolv.conf. But now check this out, If as a user I start Xvnc with vncserver start, it prompts for a passwd which is stored in ~user/.vnc/ There is a xstartup file in there, where I can change the default desktop to kde. It works but the KDM login is not presented but it logs into KDE as a different user and does not capture my current desktop, but if you logout, you have to run a vncserver -kill and a vncserver again to restart the session.. Has anyone got a solution, please.. The way it worked on tuesday was fine. User connects with vncviewer, a login screen is presented and the user logs in with his own username and passwd, and a new desktop session is spawned on display:2. What do you need from me? There are almost no config files for Xvnc and it is xinetd service. TIA Chadley