VNC server woes

From: Reid Towsley <rtowsley_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 20:20:11 CST
Hello all,
Hopefully there is someone here that can help me with my problem. I have two computers and would like to vnc from one to the other. Both are running Xubuntu (XFCE flavour of Ubuntu) 8.04 Hardy Heron. I have followed the instructions here for "VNC Server with Login Screen via GDM" because I would like to treat the vnc session as a remote login, and log into a separate user account. However, when I try to log into the vnc server from my other computer, I am told "Reading version failed: not an RFB server?". Would anyone be able to tell me what this means and how to fix it?

Alternatively, if I follow the instructions as per "Tightvncserver Server with Login Screen Via GDM", it works, however this only works to log into an existing session.

I should note that I did have to install xinetd, perhaps this has been replaced by something else in Hardy?

Thanks,
Reid
Received on Thu May 1 20:20:19 2008

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