Connecting to RHL from Windows?

[John Aldrich]

By default, in the X-Windows world, you can't use the VNCSERVER script to
remote :0, i.e. port 5900. There are add-ins (including ones from RealVNC, I
believe it's vnc.so) which will allow that, but by default, VNC sessions
start at :1. As for the grey screen, you need to run the "vncserver" script
which in turn calls the "xstartup" script in ~/.vnc which looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

# Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

(Except that it does not normally contain the "unset.." line.) That *should*
start the VNC session *with* the Window Manager of your choice.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]On
> Behalf Of Damian Connolly
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:57 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Connecting to RHL from Windows?
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We are experiencing a few difficulties connecting to VNC on a 
> RHL box from 
> Windows (including web-based connection). Basically, at 
> server :5900 the 
> server does not respond to any connection. If we create a new 
> session by 
> using the command vncserver :2, we are asked to authenticate 
> (obviously 
> when connection to server:2), but the screen shown is just a terminal 
> screen. We were hoping to be able to access the full GUI as 
> we can with 
> other Linux servers (including a fedora box) as we can access 
> what VNC 
> gives us via telnet. Where are we going wrong? 
> 
> p.s., if we start the server by using vncserver it shifts to the next 
> available port (1,2,3,4,etc...) and if we try vncserver :5900 
> we get a 
> message  "VNC server is already running as :5900"
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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