Irix Xvnc via inetd - anybody know how?

[Richard Gillman]

I'm trying to get a VNC service running on an Irix 6.5 system. But I
keep getting

vncviewer: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused
Unable to connect to VNC server

on the client system, and on the Irix server, in the /var/adm/X1msgs
Xvnc log file,

Getting interface configuration (4): Operation not supported on
transport endpoint
11/07/02 09:58:40 Xvnc version 3.3.XvncRelease
11/07/02 09:58:40 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
11/07/02 09:58:40 All Rights Reserved.
11/07/02 09:58:40 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information
on VNC
11/07/02 09:58:40 Desktop name 'x11' (ravello:1)
11/07/02 09:58:40 Protocol version supported 3.3
11/07/02 09:58:43 Protocol version 3.3

Fatal server error:
XDMCP fatal error: Session declined No valid address

I've used Jeff Vincent's "Setting up VNC on Linux" as a guide.

What I've done: in /etc/inetd.conf, added

vnc-640x480x8   stream tcp nowait root /packages/vnc/3.3.3r2/bin/Xvnc
Xvnc -inetd -query localhost -once -geometry 640x480 -depth 8
vnc-800x600x8   stream tcp nowait root /packages/vnc/3.3.3r2/bin/Xvnc
Xvnc -inetd -query localhost  -once -geometry 800x600 -depth 8
vnc-800x600x16  stream tcp nowait root /packages/vnc/3.3.3r2/bin/Xvnc
Xvnc -inetd -query localhost  -once -geometry 800x600 -depth 16

(run as root so it has permissions to write to its log file) and
/etc/services,

vnc-640x480x8  5950/tcp                        # VNC
vnc-800x600x8  5951/tcp
vnc-800x600x16 5952/tcp

and restarted inetd.

All this works fine on Solaris.

I've checked /var/X11/xdm/xdm-config to see if there is a line
DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 to comment out, there isn't. Xaccess has
"* # any host".

I found a suggestion to modify Xservers, add the lines 
1: local /usr/bin/X11/X -bs -nobitscale -c -pseudomap 4sight -solidroot
sgilightblue -cursorFG red -cursorBG white
2: local /usr/bin/X11/X -bs -nobitscale -c -pseudomap 4sight -solidroot
sgilightblue -cursorFG red -cursorBG white

..this just confused xdm, got error messages in SYSLOG when I restarted,
the error message in X1msgs didn't change.

So, has anyone had this "Session declined No valid address" problem, how
did you get over it? Is there anything else I can try.

I've seen this question asked before, but haven't seen any answers.

tia, Dick 

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Richard Gillman
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