Connecting to VNC on Linux box using XDM

Brendon Oliver brendono "at" softcentre.com.au
Wed, 09 Feb 2000 03:48:26 +0000



Ken McCord wrote:
<snip>

> What I'd like to do now is be able to access the Linux box from a web
> browser, and be presented with the XDM login screen as I am in the
> previous examples.  When I type in the 'http://192.168.254.10:5801', all
> I am getting is 'There was no response.  The server could be down or is
> not responding...' (this is from the same Win98 box I connected from
> using the VNCviewer program above).

I have a similar set up.  Make sure your Xservers file contains the
-httpd option & path to the VNC classes directory.  

Eg. for me, this is in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
	-httpd /usr/local/vnc/classes
along with all the other args to run Xvnc with.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

- Brendon.
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