Autostart vcnserver with support for kdm login screen
Hi, I am pretty new to both linux and Suse, so please apologize my incorrect usage of terms :-) I have a Suse 8.1 server behind a firewall and I want to access it graphically from WinX dekstops I started up with enabling xdmcp and kdm, I could log on thesever using exceed withou problems as long as I was sitting on the same network behind the firewall. But as soon as I moved outside the firewall I could not start a Query session from Exceed and connect to my linux box (I of course opened all the ports 6000-3 177 tcp/udp, that are used by xdmcp) Exceed simply could not connect (please note that in my test, my windows desktop was also behind a firewall... something like this Exceed->Windows -> Nat Router -> Internet -> Nat Router -> Linux -> XDMCP) I dropped that and started to think of vnc... I succeded logging to my server using SSH and starting vncserver manually. I succeded loging on the vncserver from my windows desktop using vncviewer, but I only get a blank X window desktop. Can anybody give me some info about how to 1) Start vncserver automatically (configure it as other services and be able to control it with YaST runlevel editor) 2) Be able to log on vncserver and get the kdm (or gdm or...) login window, eventually sharing the same screen as the one running on the box itself Thank you for you patience and for any help Andreas
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 05:52, Andreas Bisiach/i-Seven wrote: [stuff deleted]
Can anybody give me some info about how to 1) Start vncserver automatically (configure it as other services and be able to control it with YaST runlevel editor) 2) Be able to log on vncserver and get the kdm (or gdm or...) login window, eventually sharing the same screen as the one running on the box itself
Thank you for you patience and for any help
Andreas
If you are using the KDE desktop, then simply enable desktop sharing and skip all the way to "sharing the same screen as the one running on the box itself". It works fine. I am not aware of a way to bring up a kdm/gdm/xdm login window with VNC, nor am I aware of a way to do multiple user type stuff with VNC, that is the domain of xdmcp. Also let me warn you that running xdmcp open to the internet is full of potential issues. It is not secure. You might setup a VPN link to your system and that would place the remote machine on your network virtually and securely for your xdmcp session. -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account near Huntsville, AL
Andreas Bisiach/i-Seven wrote:
Hi, I am pretty new to both linux and Suse, so please apologize my incorrect usage of terms :-)
I have a Suse 8.1 server behind a firewall and I want to access it graphically from WinX dekstops
I started up with enabling xdmcp and kdm, I could log on thesever using exceed withou problems as long as I was sitting on the same network behind the firewall. But as soon as I moved outside the firewall I could not start a Query session from Exceed and connect to my linux box (I of course opened all the ports 6000-3 177 tcp/udp, that are used by xdmcp) Exceed simply could not connect (please note that in my test, my windows desktop was also behind a firewall... something like this Exceed->Windows -> Nat Router -> Internet -> Nat Router -> Linux -> XDMCP)
I dropped that and started to think of vnc...
I succeded logging to my server using SSH and starting vncserver manually. I succeded loging on the vncserver from my windows desktop using vncviewer, but I only get a blank X window desktop.
Can anybody give me some info about how to 1) Start vncserver automatically (configure it as other services and be able to control it with YaST runlevel editor) 2) Be able to log on vncserver and get the kdm (or gdm or...) login window, eventually sharing the same screen as the one running on the box itself
Thank you for you patience and for any help
Andreas
Is this the default SuSE 8.1 install????? If so it uses xinetd. Which you should be able to use to start en stop it in yast. yast->Network Services->Network Services (inetd) It has some default setup's for vnc. If it's installed. To edit the configs edit the file "/etc/xinetd.d/vnc" If you want to use "kdm" you have to use the "kdm" of kde2. If you want to use "gdm" you have to use the "gdm" of gnome1. The ones from kde3 en gnome2 don't work under SuSE......... :-< Hope this helps Stefan.
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Andreas Bisiach/i-Seven
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Kelly Fulks
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S. Bulterman