yum update server + Network question.

[Graeme Nichols]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:02, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Ah.  I usually refer to that as "cockpit error" or "a short between
> >>the keyboard and ground".  I believe the scientific term is "Huh?" ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >>>Anyway, things are
> >>>lookin' good now!
> >>
> >>Glad to hear it.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Rick, just further on the internet access for my laptop, I suppose I
> > could have stuck with ssh and logged into my desktop machine and run Moz
> > or Evo from the desktop machine as that works nicely and it has the
> > benefit of keeping all my emails in the one place on the one machine.
> > Ahhhh, options... options.... ain't Linux luvly.
> 
> Take a look at running a VNC server on your desktop and a VNC client on
> your laptop.  Your laptop then gives you full GUI access to your
> desktop.  This can be tunneled via SSH as well for security.  Very cool.

Hello Rick, a question on vnc, I had vnc already installed on my desktop
machine (I did a 'complete' install when I installed RH8) and started
the vnc server on my desktop so:

[graeme at barney graeme]$ vncserver

New 'X' desktop is barney.localdomain:1

Starting applications specified in /home/graeme/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/graeme/.vnc/barney.localdomain:1.log



It comes up as above. If I then start vncviewer I am asked for my
password etc and get the Xwindow (fullscreen) with the big X mouse
pointer but no window manager. xstartup contains the following:

[graeme at barney graeme]$ cat .vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh

# Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

It doesn't matter if I comment out the exec line above the window I get
is always the same (I think it is twm but I'm not sure). If I put a
command in xstartup, eg evolution, it doesn't start, just get the
Xwindow with the big X mouse pointer. F8 to get the popup works OK in
the window but nothing else.

If I try from my laptop using the command 'vncviewer -via 192.168.1.2
barney:1' it doesn't work. 192.168.1.2 is the IP address of the laptop.
If I try 'vncviewer -via 192.168.1.1 barney:1 it works to the point
where it simply stops after entering the password. Hitting 'enter'
brings up the message 'couldn't read password' or similar and the
terminal prompt re-appears. 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of the
desktop. The vnc log file follows:

[graeme at barney graeme]$ cat .vnc/barney.localdomain:1.log
30/06/04 14:48:52 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2
30/06/04 14:48:52 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
30/06/04 14:48:52 All Rights Reserved.
30/06/04 14:48:52 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information
on VNC
30/06/04 14:48:52 Desktop name 'X' (barney.localdomain:1)
30/06/04 14:48:52 Protocol version supported 3.3
30/06/04 14:48:52 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
30/06/04 14:48:52 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
30/06/04 14:48:52   URL http://barney.localdomain:5801
gnome-session: you're already running a session manager

30/06/04 14:50:28 Got connection from client 192.168.1.1
30/06/04 14:50:28 Protocol version 3.3
30/06/04 14:50:31 Client 192.168.1.1 gone
30/06/04 14:50:31 Statistics:
30/06/04 14:50:31   framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0


Any clues?


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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols

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