vncviewer connects but can't log in desktop

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 2 01:56:58 UTC 2004


Barry Yu said:
> In the office there are 6 machines, vnc viewer can remotely connect to
> all of them without problem except one XP pro, the problem is when
> connected to this machine after had entered the password the process began
> to logon, then encountered a full black screen, with a very very tiny
> square taking place of mouse arrow, this mouse pointer can move as usual
> but just can't enable me to log on the desktop of machine.

How does this relate to Fedora?

Please ask you question in the appropriate mailing list.  In this case I would suggest the RealVNC list.

http://www.realvnc.com/lists.html

> I compared this
> machine with another one that also use XP, found that this one is with the
> screensaver activated, when I disable the screensaver,  I can log on the
> desktop now. My question is : If that XP must have the screensaver
> activated ( That machine's user preference ), is there a way for vnc
> viewer to log on? or this problem is not necessary the screensaver of XP
> but something else? tks.

Are you running VNC as a service?

-- 
William Hooper





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