[CentOS] TightVNC controlling a Mac OSX 10.4.9.

[John Summerfield]

David A. Woyciesjes wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> Justin Cataldo wrote:
>>
>>> Ah I see.  Well that should work.  It's obviously connecting since 
>>> you get
>>> the dot.
>>>
>>> I've had similar issues with TightVNC before.  It sits for ages 
>>> saying it is
>>> doing the initial screen draw, but never connects.
>>>
>>> I'd suggest trying RealVNC (realvnc.com).
>>>
>>> *VNC Free Edition for Linux (x86)
>>> http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi
>>
>>
>> The version RH ships does not work -
>> [summer at bilby ~]$ vncviewer emu
>>
>> VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Mar 31 2005 17:48:27
>> Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd.
>> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
>>
>> Fri Mar 23 21:09:18 2007
>>  CConn:       connected to host emu port 5900
>>  CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889
>>  CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
>>
>> Fri Mar 23 21:09:23 2007
>>  TXImage:     Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16.
>>  CConn:       Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
>>  CConn:       Using ZRLE encoding
>>
>> Fri Mar 23 21:09:24 2007
>>  CConn:       Throughput 5125 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding
>>  CConn:       Throughput 5125 kbit/s - changing to full colour
>>  CConn:       Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
>>  CConn:       Using hextile encoding
>> unknown message type 255
>>  main:        unknown message type
>> [summer at bilby ~]$
>>
>> However, I'm getting along just swimmingly with the TightVND included 
>> in OpenSUSE.
>>
>>
> 
>     Yep. I get the same error with vncviewer...
>     Hmmm, what command options are you using with TightVNC?
> 
The absolute minimum; hostname:0


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