Re: [SLE] Enabling VNC in SUSE 10

On Friday 09 December 2005 11:38, Mello wrote:

That's exactly what I'd done. First "init 3", then "init 5" and finally rebooted (must be the Win syndrome).

I've also checked /var/log/messages but couldn't find any error/alert (nor I expected to find any).

My googling continues... -mw

On 12/9/05, Jerry Westrick wrote:

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On Friday 09 December 2005 16:58, Mello wrote:

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Hi Jerry, thanks for your prompt reply. I went into YAST2/sysconfig editor and I believe I've found those settings you mentioned. Under the following hierarchy: Desktop -> Display manager I've checked: DISPLAYMANAGER = kdm DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS = yes DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE = yes (this even scares me a bit) DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER = yes

The problem still stays: no login manager in vncviewer. Will be waiting for more ideas :) THX, -mw

Okay, DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE allows you to login as Root when connecting via vnc. Choose your poison... Several times I've found that specifically those options did take effect until I dropped to "init 3" and back to "Init 5", I usually reboot... Although It's a nono to say something like that about linux! Jerry

-- Do you have more than one net interface? I was running VNC successfully until I added another interface to do some testing, it caused the exact same thing as you have. I disabled the interface and all is well.

hth Mike