vnc server problem

[Frank Cox]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:27:21 -0500
Mail Lists wrote:

>   You are right ... I am silly! Anyway, the 'native display .. :0' is
> what i meant .. hope tis clear now.

Ok... now why would you need or want to do that?

I've never actually tried display 0.  On one of my machines, this is the
relevant line in /etc/vncservers:

VNCSERVERS="1:frankcox"

and it works fine. 

If I understand what you're trying to do, i.e. tunnel your vnc session, you
need to use something like this with ssh:

ssh -L 5902:localhost:5901 myserver

where myserver is the server that you're planning to log into.

Then something like this will bring up your desktop:

vncviewer -AutoSelect=0 -LowColourLevel 1 -PreferredEncoding ZRLE localhost:2

Be sure that you've run vncpasswd to set up the vnc password on your remote
computer first.



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