Help needed

Robert A. Klahn klahn "at" yahoo.com
Fri, 05 Nov 1999 15:37:51 +0000


At 10:17 AM 11/5/99 +0100, you wrote:
>I tried to install VNC on a SUSE Linux System 6.2
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>When I want to set the password it says:
>cannot write password file /root/.vnc/passwd

Check for existance of, and permissions of, /root and /root/.vnc

>When I start XVNC it says:
>fatal server error: could not add screen

You are probably getting some relevant messages before this one.

>When I start Xserver it says:
>could not find "XVNC" on your path

How are you trying to start Xvnc. Try:

vncserver :1

and see what happens.

>when I start vncviewer it says:
>cannot open display

Probably because Xvnc is not running.

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