--- Joe Pruett <joey at clean.q7.com> wrote: > sorry i figured this out after deleting the other parts > of the thread. > > just run vino-preferences as the user who runs the main x > display. it > will have various options to enable and as soon as you do > that you can get > to hostname:0 via vnc. works quite well. I tried that but it did not work, even running vncviewer on the server itself. So, I decided to use the native X display support of realvnc using vnc.so. This solution gave me what I was after. I can connect now to the server via vncviewer server:0 and have root password access to my normal desktop in gnome. http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Lee Parmeter Emperor, linXos - The Flying Penguin http://www.linXos.com Linux Registered User #337161 'It's free. It works. Duh.'" - Eric Harrison The United States is NOT a democracy, it was founded as a Republic! God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a democracy! - Lee Parmeter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com