Can't Get VNC to work

[mbrad]

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I have installed VNC (yum install vnc-server and yum install vnc)

I don't see VNC anywhere in the menus... odd

I have started the VNC service, I have added port 5900 and 10065 to the Firewall config, SELinux is disabled.

When I try to VNC from my XP machine, I get

unable to connect to host: A socked operation was attempted to an unreachable host. (10065)

I just upgraded from Fedora 9 to 11 and am in the process of setting everything up again. This is my second time setting things up, and am at a bit of a loss now.

Any ideas on what I need to do to get VNC to work?

Thanks,

Brad

[glennzo]

Have a look under System > Preferences > Remote Desktop. I think that may be what you're looking for.

[mbrad]

Thanks for the reply glennzo. I did find that as well. Forgot to post that info.

My settings on that window are

Sharing
Allow other users to view your desktop (checked)
Allow other users to control your desktop (checked)
(a yellow box appears after you open this window, it says "Your desktop is only reachable over the local network. Others can access your computer using the address 192.168.0.5, linux.local")

Security
You must confirm each access to this machine (unchecked)
Require the user to enter this password (unchecked)
Configure network automatically to accept connections (checked)

Notification Area
Never display an icon is selected

Not sure what else to do to get this to work.

Thanks,

EDIT: I can VNC FROM Fedora11 to XP PC, but not XP to Fedora11

Brad

[glennzo]

Sometimes with Samba you can't connect to a Fedora box unless there is a Fedora user with the same name as the user on the Windows box. In other words, sometimes Joe (from Windows) can not connect to Fedora because user Joe doesn't exist. This has happened to me. I simply created a user Joe and I was in. I didn't have to log in as Joe, the user just needed to exist. This may not follow all the "rules" of networking. I can only speak from experience. That said, maybe the same theory applies to vnc?

I got a lot of help from this web page, http://bobpeers.com/linux/vnc

[mbrad]

Thanks for the link.

I'll check it out.

Have a great evening.

Brad

[mbrad]

Ok, I think I've found something. I have been trying to restart the VNCServer in the command line and it fails. It says when trying to start: No Displays Configured. So I'm guessing I need to do something to /etc/sysconfig/vncserver... I just don't know what. I have 2 users on myserver brad and root.

So I added these two lines:

# VNCSERVERS="2:brad"
# VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800x600"

But then shutting down and starting up the vnc server fails.

I typed /sbin/chkconfig vncserver --list and got

vncserver 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

So I think I have to do something to that file, but I don't know what.

Thanks,

Brad

[LaKing]

If you install something like "remote desktop gnome menu / gui" you get the remote desktop icon under administration. ...

You propably need a good manual for the configuration file. ...