vncviewer: Connection Reset by Peer

[Tristan Richardson]

I suspect this is because your XFree server is running in 24-bit packed pixel
format.  This isn't supported properly by VNC yet.  If you can, make XFree use
16 or 32 bpp.  If you can't do this, you should be able to give the -bgr233
option to vncviewer, though colour handling will be poorer.


>>>>>>>> dsk1 "at" text.org writes:
>
> Anyway, I'm running vncviewer on Linux 2.0.33 (RH5), using the RPM
> available (compressed font support, etc.). I've also tried the
> binaries provided from the website, using xfs with the same problems.
> 
> I've installed the WinVNC server on my NT machine.
> 
> I can connect to the NT machine using Win95 or another NT box, using
> the Win32 vncviewer application. Not a problem. Very nice.
> 
> However, I want to do this from within Linux+XFree-3.3.1. 
> 
> I start the vncviewer program the correct way, enter the correct
> password, get suthorized (I know this because a different password
> stops with an ;authentication failed' message.) A window then opens on
> my desktop, but immediately closes. 
> 
> The output from vncviewer is this, in debug:
> 
> --
> 
> vncviewer: VNC authentication succeeded
> ReadExact: 03 20 02 58  10 10 00 01  00 1f 00 1f  00 1f 0a 05  .
> .X............
>            00 00 00 00  00 00 00 06
> ........
> ReadExact: 73 74 61 74  73 31                                  stats1
> vncviewer: Desktop name "stats1"
> vncviewer: Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3
> vncviewer: VNC server default format:
> 16 bits per pixel.
> Least significant byte first in each pixel.
> True colour: max red 31 green 31 blue 31
>             shift red 10 green 5 blue 0
> Using default colormap which is truecolor
> Creating window depth 24, visualid 0x22 colormap 0x23
> ReadExact: 03                                                  .
> ReadExact: 00 00 00 00  00 00 01                               .......
> ReadExact: 2a                                                  *
> vncviewer: read: Connection reset by peer


Cheers

Tristan

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