vnc server problem

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Frank Cox wrote:
> 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. 

You're taking about 2 different implementations of VNC here.  The server 
running on :0 gives control of the remote computers visual X display.
This is RealVNC.  It is embedded in the user's Xserver running on the 
system console monitor.  This is the way vnc works on Windows computers.

The :1 display is purely a networked display and is not running on a 
real monitor.  This is just VNC.

I have used both in the past on the same computer (neither one is 
dependent on the other to work).

> 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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