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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Stewart Walker wrote:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> if I run vncserver as root.. viewer works fine. If I run it as a service </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> viewer responds with failed to connect to server.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I think its due to not finding the files vncserver creates in the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> /root/.vnc directory.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> How do I fix this?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>Er, how do you mean "run it as a service"? </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Its selected in the Service configuration or [@>]service vncserver start.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">which displays OK but no client connection are possible.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">if I do [@>]vncserver as root its does it thing and clients can connect.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">What file are the below mentioned options set in?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Took a look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd and didn't find any thing for Xvnc.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">nothing in /etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Where does the displaynumber stuff get set as ":0" is the console.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Thanks</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>If you simply run Xvnc, it</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>should create the necessary stuff and detatch. You should then be able</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>to get at it from any client if your firewall allows it.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>If you want to run Xvnc from xinetd, make sure you specify the "-inetd"</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>option in the "serverargs =" bit.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>Also, make sure you use the ":displaynumber" stuff on the host name if</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>the display is anything but ":0" or it surely won't work.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span
style="font-size:10pt"><u>rstevens@vitalstream.com</u></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> -</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>- VitalStream, Inc. </span></font><font
face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>http://www.vitalstream.com</u></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> -</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>-
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>- "You think that's tough?
Try herding cats!" -</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> \\|//</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> -(@ @)-</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">===oOO==(_)==OOo======================</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Stewart Walker</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">swalker@caspercollege.edu</span></font></div>
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