vncserver works when started as user, but not as root.

[James Weatherall]

Kenan,

Actually, looking at the netstat output you included, Robin isn't far off the
mark - your VNC server is actually working fine, but probably not in the way
you intend!

It's listening for VNC connections from localhost on port 5901 (because you
specified "-localhost" on the service command-line), and it's not listening
for X11 connections on port 6001 (because you specified "-nolisten tcp" on the
command-line".  Robin's suggestion of simply removing "-localhost" is probably
what you want, assuming the aim is to make the box accessible via VNC within
your LAN.

Cheers,

--
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd


> The following output is for the first case ($ vncserver :1):
>
> [root "at" MythTV2 mythtv]# netstat -tulpan | grep vnc
> [root "at" MythTV2 mythtv]# netstat -tulpan | grep vnc
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5901                0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      3727/Xvnc
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6001                0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      3727/Xvnc
> tcp        0      0 :::6001                     :::*
> LISTEN      3727/Xvnc
>
> The following output is for the second case (# /sbin/service vncserver
> start):
>
> [root "at" MythTV2 mythtv]# netstat -tulpan | grep vnc
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5901              0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      3653/Xvnc
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong. Why does it work in one case,
> but not the other?
>
> My primary goal is to get the vncserver to start automatically at boot
> time.
>
> Thank you!
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