--- William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Lee Parmeter wrote: > [snip] > > The Vino package was installed on my installation by > > default, but I am unable to connect to the CentOS 4 > server from a client > > machine running Ubuntu Hoary (gnome 2.10). The is > rejected. Tried > > vncviewer using hostname:0 per documentation. So, I am > now wondering what > > else needs to be done to enable remote connects to > succeed. I did > > configure the "remote desktop" settings per discussion > in the thread. > > Check the usual suspects? Is your firewall configured > correctly? Is vino > actually listening (netstat)? No firewall. The viewer even fails when run on the server as: vncviewer localhost:0 Since I am on a trusted network, I added an ALL statement ot hosts.allow for my client machine's ip. > > I don't know vino specifically, does it leverage the VNC > X module? Yes, I think that's what is needed. Some statements are required in the xorg.conf file to enable vnc support. I ran across some info in this area on the Ubuntu forums. > > I would just use the standard Xvnc and hostname:1, > which is > > working, but when I login via vncviewer I am unable to > do any root > > configuration via gnome. > > I can't say I've seen this issue. Do you have a Gnome > session open on the > console at the same time? Not always, generally the user is logged out of the server. I know Gnome doesn't like > that. I am being to wonder if vino really works! Why is there no doc or man page? > -- > William Hooper > > _______________________________________________ > 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