VNC: Misc/Minor problems noted.

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:40:00PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

> 
> I have VNC setup using xinetd and I am able to get this
> to work just fine.  But one thing kind of perplexes me.
> 
> 1) Cannot get sound to work as if you were logged onto the console
>   a) KDE gives: /dev/dsp error (permission denied).
> 
> 2) Cannot do administrative stuff as if you were logged onto the
> console.
>   a) Cannot fire up up2date via gui
> 
> 3) If the same person is logged into the console, and a VNC session is
> started
> on another system, there is a note saying that the same person is
> already 
> logged in but do you want to log in anyway? I thought login sessions
> were
> independent regardless of who is logged in?
> 
> I am not sure that I can do eveything from VNC as if I was logged
> directly in the console.  Should I be able to?

Try logging in, as the same user, but with a text-only console
(Ctrl-Alt-F1).

Tim.
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