You can try the quick how-to I posted here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-October/045424.html I've had some issues with the display showing corrupted data depending on the X server being used. SVGA always seems to work, the latest Intel one seems fine also. Regards, Paul Berger On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com>wrote: > Does anyone have remote desktop connectivity working in CentOS 5.3? > I'm using the Gnome desktop and have configured the Remote Deskop > Preferences to "Allow other users to view your desktop" and "Allow > other users to control your desktop". The configuration dialog box > says that "Users can view your desktop using this command: vncviewer > HOSTNAME.domain.com:0". However, when I try to connect to it from > another host, I always get a "Connection reset by peer" error > message. I've tried various different clients an operation systems, > and I get the same result. I disabled the firewall completely for > this test (service iptables stop) so I know it's not a firewall > issue. Then again, I don't see a vncserver process running either, > so that may be the issue. This was working on CentOS 5.2. > > What do I need to do to access my existing desktop on my CentOS 5.3 > system remotely? I don't need to use VNC, but I do want to access > the existing session and not a separate desktop (i.e., by starting a > vncserver process). > > Thanks, > Alfred > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090513/2e5d5c68/attachment-0005.html>