On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Andrei Borzenkov
So you claim that you can log in locally, using physical mouse/keyboard/display then connect over VNC and resume your work? I would be interested how you achieved it.
This is just a part of what I am trying to do. Actually the stuff that any windows user of vnc would do, as there is only one real physical session on the windows non-server machines. Just give me all the pixels that your graphics driver is currently outputting to your monitor, just over vnc. Thats all. I can log in physically on the machine, but I can just see the logon screen of that kde or plasma or whatever its name is. There is my username listed there that I can click on or enter a username and a pass. There are those graphical elements of that kde or plasma visible and the green lantern or bulb or what it is currently with leap as background and the shutdown and reboot buttons and just everything or anything. As I wrote before, I want the pixels from the linux machine. This is a nobrainer to me, as I was doing this often in the windows world. And then i got curious how or if you can do this on the linux world and eventually found x11vnc or that command. Anyways, back to my problem here, the -auth guess parameter seems to not work here on the machine. ps wwaux | grep auth gave me that x command or server command with its parameter which shows that auth file or parameter with full path, and now i was able to use that as -auth /file/path/here instead of -auth guess and now it works, even on this dang machine. Dunno why it wouldnt take the -auth guess it takes that on the other machine-s
I still fail to see why you need to see output to local display. You can do everything over remote terminal or remote GUI and if you need to reboot server, you need connection to service processor (iLO, iDRAC, iRMC, whatever) anyway. And if you have connection to service processor, you already have your local console.
Well fail to see? cos it would be the simple most simple way to see what is happening at the machine or just to make use of it. thats all there is to it. it just works. i want to see the pixels of the machine. thats all. i can ssh to it. i fire up the
x11vnc -localhost -nolookup -nopw -display :0 -auth /var/lib/kdm/AuthFiles/A:0-XYZDZSHAHSDA
command as root, as thats the current filename paramter for my authfile, whatever is in that file and so on, i didnt disect the x11vnc innermost workings and i am not familiar and can just not learn all the neat layers of linux graphics stack, and desktop environments, and authorisation layers and what not :) just yet. And it works. Now i see the kde logon screen and I was able to log in. Thanks for helping and point out to grab some of those hardware devices, it has been long ago that i was busy with one of those. this is off limits for the machines i am dealing with in the scenario. Maybe i file some bug or question at the x11vnc authors page or contact information why the guess wouldnt work here. Or maybe some other kind folk with deep insight can deal me some clues and more hints where to fix this and why this happens. Thanks again to all involved here. TY. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org