Vncviewer won't start

Roger Beever roger2 at rogernet.net
Sun Feb 8 00:29:48 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 00:20, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:28:54PM -0500, Roberto Mason wrote:
> 
> > When i log on as root and run vncviewer <ip-address>:1, I connect to my
> > vncserver, but if i log on to my workstation as user and run vncviewer, I
> > get the logon prompt, I enter the password, and nothing happens. Any idea
> > where the problem could be. I checked the permissions on vncviewer, Everyone
> > has execute turned on
> 
> If by 'the logon prompt' you mean the VNC dialog box asking you for a
> password, I expect that you typed in the wrong password.
> Unfortunately there is no 'wrong password' dialog box (I think that's
> in bugzilla).
> 
> Check .xsession-errors.
> 
> Tim.
As a clarification could someone confirm the password is set when
VNCserver is first run (can be changed later I believe) and not the
password of the user (unless they happen to be the same of course)
Regards  Roger





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