[K12OSN] VNC grey screen

Doug Simpson simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Wed May 16 17:34:00 UTC 2007


Could be the XDMCP is off.

In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, search for XDMCP and find the line in that section that says

Enable=false

and change it to

Enable=true

And restart GDM.

(Or just restart the server)

I don't know if it is set this way by default or if the K12LTSP has it set or not but whenever I had that problem, this uslally fixed it.

Doug


Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
De Queen Public Schools
De Queen, AR
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us

>>> "Robert Arkiletian" <robark at gmail.com> 5/16/2007 12:10 AM >>>
On 5/15/07, Tom Wolfe <twolfe at sawback.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, I tried recently to connect to my k12ltsp 6.0 server via VNC. I
> get a grey screen, e.g. "vncviewer servername", "vncviewer servername:1",
> etc.. Teachertool, however, works as one would expect
> (monitoring/controlling is no problem). Any suggestions?
>

My guess. It's your firewall on eth1. BTW monitoring/controlling uses
a vnc server running on the clients (as a module of X). However,
Broadcast uses a vnc server on the server. If your sitting at the
server and "vncviewer localhost" does not work then it's not your
firewall.

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ 
C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/ 

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