vnc problems.

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:22 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> No matter how I try when I try to start a vnc session from one of my
> home machines to another I get the error:
> 
> [akonstam at vulcan ~]$ vncviewer saturn
> 
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built May 17 2006 11:06:32
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> 
> Fri Dec 29 16:13:43 2006
>  main:        unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111)
> 
> Also when I restart vncserver on the server machine I can't find that
> program running anywhere on the server machine. Can anyone explain all
> this?

Have you tried "vncviewer saturn:1".  By default vncserver creates a
separate display, starting at 1 and incrementing for each instance of
vncserver so you must connect to display 1.

Also, the process is "Xvnc", not "vncserver".  vncserver simply launches
Xvnc and passes it some startup stuff (like a window manager, typically
twm).

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