[CentOS] Reg. VNC server and Windows and Centos interworking

[Padmaja]

Hi,

Thanks for your response, I could connenct to the Centos PC from Windows 
using VNC. However, I do not see the icons etc., that I see when I access 
any windows PC. I ran the command ps aux and saw there is a vnc process 
running for iconic view, but 'm not able to view the icons on the desktop. 
What should I do to get access to the GUI?

Thanks for your help,
Padmaja

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Reg. VNC server and Windows and Centos interworking


> Padmaja wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for such a fast response. I typed vncserver at the command line 
>> and it asked me for a password. It said I would require password to enter 
>> the desktop. I did not set any before so gave some dummy password. It 
>> again showed Verify and I typed the same password again. Then the screen 
>> showed something like
>>
>> for user padmaja, the startup script is in /home/padmaja/.vnc/Xstartup
>> the startup applications are in /home/padmaja/.vnc/Xstartup
>> the log file is in /home/padmaja/.vnc/sipserver.com.log
>>
>> After this I typed ps aux and saw that there is a Xvnc running againt pid 
>> 11435.
>>
>> Now, I tried to connect to the Centos PC from Windows using Vnc client 
>> and it gave the error
>>
>> "unable to connect to host: connection refused (10061)."
>>
>> I cant understand what the issue is. I am however able to connect to 
>> Windows PCs from VNC on windows.
>
>
> Vncserver creates separate desktops for each instance and should have 
> given you a 'screen number" when you started it - probably :1 for the 
> first one.   Then you have to specify the matching screen when you connect 
> from the client:  hostname:1.  If you have the firewall running on Centos, 
> you have to permit the appropriate port in ( 5900 + screen number).  If 
> you are expecting to access the desktop running on the console you need a 
> different approach.  KDE and Gnome have 'screen sharing' options for the 
> running desktop.
>
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
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