Re: [SLE] Enabling VNC in SUSE 10

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:32:51 +0100, Mello wrote
> Hi List,
> First thing off, the (not so) obvious answers to questions I've already
> asked myself:
>
> 1. I'm running openSUSE on an Intel PC (uname -r = 2.6.13-15.7-
> default)
> 2. connecting from a Win XP laptop on the same network segment as
> the target PC
> 3. /usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver has "startkde" instead of "twm" at line
> 63 [ "startkde &\n"); ]
> 4. Remote Administration is allowed, Port is Open In Firewall (in
> YAST2) 4a. double-checked service "vnc1" is ON by default in xinetd
> (in YAST2) 4b. double-checked Remote Administration is actually
> allowed in Firewall
> (in YAST2)
> 5. file /etc/xinetd.d/vnc seems OK
>
> All that I can get upon connecting from my laptop to the LinBox is
> the usual grey screen showing "nobody's X11 desktop (Linux :1)".
>
> I've also compared these settings to another PC of mine which runs
> VNC flawlessly. Needless to say, the settings are exactly the same.
> (The only difference is that on this second PC I've enabled Remote
Administration
> during installation)
>
> My conclusions are: connection works, VNC service is running,
> firewall is OK, window manager is NOT working. I've googled around
> but it looks like there's some setting specific to openSUSE that I
> cannot get hold of. (maybe Google is broken, hehe)
>
> Any advice?
>
> THX,
> -mw


Does the server time out?

What do the logs say?

I think I ran into that problem once if memory serves I had changed the ip of
my server and the /etc/hosts file still had the old ip in it. Correct the
entry restarted xinetd and all was ok.

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