[CentOS] TightVNC controlling a Mac OSX 10.4.9.

[David A. Woyciesjes]

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?

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--- David Woyciesjes