David A. Woyciesjes wrote:
William Hooper 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@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
Apple pulled a number out of the air for the protocol version. With RealVNC 4, it is close enough to the real number that the viewer picks the wrong encoding. I also believe there are other incompatibilities, but you will have to look at the RealVNC list for more details.
I believe people have had some success with the Windows version of VNCViewer 4.1.2, which has an option to force it to use the older 3.3 protocol. I don't know if 4.0 for Linux implemented this option.
I have RealVNC viewer vP4.2.8, and get the unknown error 255, eventhough I chose the Use Protocol 3.3 option. Looking more like I need to use Vine, or some other vncserver on the OSX side...
Well, I installed Vine on the Mac, opened the VNC port, and was able to connect with TightVNC here on Linux. :) Next, I'm gonna try using RealVNC... One neat thing about Vine on OSX, is it could allow more than one person to be logged into the Mac at the same time...