VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0

[Mark A. Nelson]

James,

This worked quite nice.
Per your recomendation all was needed was to establish VNC over ssh.

Splendid recomendation.

Thank you

mark
On
Mon, 24 Nov 2003, James Weatherall wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:59:10 -0000
> From: James Weatherall <jnw@realvnc.com>
> To: 'Mark A. Nelson' <manelson@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0
>
> Mark,
>
> If user "oracle" is the user that you're running the installer as then
> yes, that's the simplest way to get it to work.
>
> An alternative way to do it, albeit somewhat clumsy, is to use whatever
> your currently running VNC X server is, and use SSH to start a session
> as user "oracle", for the installation.  SSH will then take care of the
> access rights to the VNC X server and X applications run from within the
> SSH session should be able to display their interfaces in it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wez @ RealVNC ltd.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark A. Nelson [mailto:manelson@sdf.lonestar.org]
> > Sent: 24 November 2003 17:54
> > To: James Weatherall
> > Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> > Subject: Re: VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0
> >
> >
> > So I need to start up a vnc session as user oracle then?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > mark
> > On Mon, 24 Nov
> > 2003, James Weatherall wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:41:01 -0000
> > > From: James Weatherall <jnw@realvnc.com>
> > > To: manelson@sdf.lonestar.org
> > > Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> > > Subject: Re: VNCSERVER ERROR while installing Oracle 9.2.0
> > >
> > > Mark,
> > >
> > > This isn't a VNC Server error, it's an error from Oracle - the setup
> > > program is trying to access the VNC Server but it's running
> > as a user
> > > which doesn't have access to that particular VNC Server.  The most
> > > probable cause is that the VNC Server is running as one
> > user while the
> > > installer is running as another (such as root).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
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