VNC 4.0 on Soalris 8 with inetd

[Alasdair Ferro]

Jeff,

I've been running VNC on Solaris 9 (9/04 with no patches) for a while 
now with no problem. However my Solaris 8 (2/04, but with the latest 
recommended patches) is showing this problem. Can you give us some more 
detail as to how you found the problem (so I can verify it's the same 
one), and the fix (feel free to mail me off list, if it's long!)

BTW is it Sun or VNC's xdm implementation that's not behaving?

Thanks,

Alasdair

>The version of xdm that ships with Solaris 8 and 9 is incompatible with
>VNC 4. This incompatibility is the reason the VNC window disappears
>after connecting and logging in. I was able to get VNC 4.1.1 to work
>by downloading the XFree 4.3.0 source, building it and using the xdm
>that comes with it.
>
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