VNCServer?!

[enko]

Is vncserver unavailable on 64 bit platforms?

I'm regretting this 64 bit install and it's an hour old! Tell me I'm missing something

Thanks!

[scottro]

Ok. You're missing something.

(Oooh, it's tempting to end the post there.)

I think in Fedora (writing from CentOS so can't check at this instant) that it's called tigervnc-server or something similar. Do

yum search vnc

and you'll get the answer. (I'm *guessing* you tried something like yum install vncserver or vnc-server and got back something like no such package available.)

[marcrblevins]

They changed it.

tigervnc.i686 : A TigerVNC remote display system
tigervnc-server.i686 : A TigerVNC server

I forgot to install it myself, thanks for the head-ups.

[enko]

Oh thank god I was going to say, of all the things that 64 bit breaks.. VNC doesn't seem like a good candidate :P

Wicked, now I can VNC in and use some of the GUI tools to see what's going on with samba.

Thanks both for your help!

Edit: Damn, spoke too soon.

Have either of you gotten vncserver to actually work? Doesn't work. Starts up but I can't connect... logs show some weird stuff.

Xvnc TigerVNC 1.0.0 - built Aug 28 2009 07:37:36
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Constantin Kaplinsky
Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
Underlying X server release 10601901,


Thu Nov 26 20:51:23 2009
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
gnome-session[12281]: WARNING: keycode1 not existant
gnome-session[12281]: WARNING: keycode2 not existant
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-Lzkgnt/socket
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-Lzkgnt/socket.ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=12293
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/gcormier/.config/metacity/sessions/10db478ac73cc1dd1125928668724876900000122810026.ms: Failed to open file '/home/gcormier/.config/metacity/ses
sions/10db478ac73cc1dd1125928668724876900000122810026.ms': No such file or directory
Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.

** (gnome-settings-daemon:12306): WARNING **: XKB extension not available

** (gnome-settings-daemon:12306): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
xmodmap:  unable to open file '/usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us' for reading
xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.
Failed to play sound: File or data not found
handle_message(member:'NameAcquired')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')

** (gnome-volume-control-applet:12357): WARNING **: Unable to get default source
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')

** (nm-applet:12354): WARNING **: <WARN>  request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
  Error: (9) Connection ":1.180" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file

handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:12391): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:12391): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Xlib:  extension "DPMS" missing on display ":1.0".
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
system-config-printer-applet: failed to start NewPrinterNotification service
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'NameOwnerChanged')
handle_message(member:'Crash')

[garymayor]

Yep got it working great here TigerVNC you need to turn off iptables

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

on target machine then start it up again or add it to allow those ports havn't figured this one out myself yet if you do let me know please just time thats all. Then on client add the port in

such as
vncviewer 192.168.1.7:5:5903

The other thing i'de love to know is how to make it show the same screen as i can see on the monitor another thing for later.

[scottro]

You need to open port 5900. Often, that will be enough. I see you're mentioning 5903, not sure if that one is necessary or not. There's a system-config-firewall, I think, a graphic tool that should make opening the necessary ports pretty easy.

As for your other question, Tigervnc, as far as I know, doesn't do that--what you're looking for, if I understand the question, is to have it open on display :0, that is, the display that the user is already on. For that you can use vino or a few other programs. (I don't use that so I don't really remember, I fear. You might want to google around for something linux vnc display :0 and see what that comes up with for you.

If you really get stuck, of course, feel free to open a new thread, but get that display :0 in the thread title so people know what you're seeking.

[marcrblevins]

Its working for me, just tested it.

I use the system-config-firewall and under 'Other Ports', I have 5900-5902 open, two users. If you want three, then 5900-5903. 5900 is for Windows(typical).

I manually start vncserver thru ssh, start TightVNC in from Windows. When done, I kill the vncserver process thru ssh. I don't leave vncserver running 24/7.

When you run TightVNC from Windows, type in 'IPaddress:5901' for the first guy, a new TightVNC session at 'IPaddress:5902' for the 2nd guy.
If could use the short cut, 'IPaddress:1', instead of 'IPaddress:5901', both are the same port.

In the end of my /etc/rc.local file, its all commented out.

#VNC Server
#su marc -c "vncserver :1 -depth 24 -geometry 1280x1024"
#su marc -c "vncserver :1 -depth 24 -geometry 1152x864"
#su marc -c "vncserver :1 -depth 24 -geometry 1024x768"
#su marc -c "vncserver :1 -depth 24 -geometry 800x600"
#su marc -c "vncserver -kill :1"
#su root -c "vncserver :2 -depth 24 -geometry 1280x1024 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"
#su root -c "vncserver :2 -depth 24 -geometry 1152x864 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"
#su root -c "vncserver :2 -depth 24 -geometry 1024x768 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"
#su root -c "vncserver :2 -depth 24 -geometry 800x600 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"
#su root -c "vncserver -kill :2"

However, I tried ssh tunneling(VNC thru the tunnel), I lost my memory on this one, not working. I used to type in 127.0.0.1:1 for the first guy thru my ssh thingy.
I'll look into it later.