Hi, I've used a number of distros, but not Suse. So far, it's been pleasant, but I cannot seem to get a working VNC server. The configuration looks a bit suspect to me. It looks like the idea is to call Xvnc from xinetd. I've seen some recommendations that it would be better to call vncserver at system startup, rather than directly calling Xvnc, but perhaps that is not true. Here is the config for /etc/xinetd.d/vnc # default: off # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login \ # prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1024x768, 16bit depth. service vnc1 { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = nobody server = /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvnc server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 type = UNLISTED port = 5901 } # default: off # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login \ # prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1280x1024, 16bit depth. service vnc2 { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = nobody server = /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvnc server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 16 type = UNLISTED port = 5902 } # default: off # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login \ # prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1600x1200, 16bit depth. service vnc3 { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = nobody server = /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvnc server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry 1600x1200 -depth 16 type = UNLISTED port = 5903 } If I vnc to the machine and use :0 for the port, I can get the console, if it has been logged in. Otherwise, the connect fails. This seems ok to me. If I vnc to any of the other ports (:1, :2, :3), I get a gui window, but the screen is blank with a 'X' for a cursor. The login prompt never comes. This is bad. Some googling indicates that perhaps a xstartup file is missing, but I cannot seem to figure out which xstartup file should be used. Just for fun I loaded /var/lib/nobody/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh echo running xstartup $DISPLAY $VNCDESKTOP >> /tmp/xstartup.log xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm & Nothing ever gets written to /tmp/xstartup.log, so I think xstartup is not being called. The vnc viewer never asks for a password, though I thought it should. One other bit, if I start a secure shell and run vncserver, and then connect with vnc, everything works perfectly if I specify the given X desktop instance. It usually gives Server:4. Thanks for any advice you can offer. Regards, Rich Duzenbury