carmine moleti

Hi to everyone,

I've installed vnc on my Slackware box, which uses GDM as the graphical
login manager.

I've set up /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services that way:

/etc/services
vnc-1280x1024x24 5901/tcp # VNC su porta 5901

/etc/inetd.conf
vnc-1280x1024x24 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/Xvnc
Xvnc -inetd -query localhost -once -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 24

A "nmap -v localhost" shows me that there's something listening on 5901
port.

Then went through gdm configuration to allow remote login.

And now the weird stuff.

The box boots in runlevel 4, thus X server starts up and so does gdm.
I can normally login into Gnome etc..

On a remote machine, a windows box, I've installed vnc viewer.
When I try a connection on mylinuxbox.org:1 from the windows box,
a window pops up and disappear quickly without an error message.

To remotely login through VNC I have to act as follows:

1. ssh to mylinuxbox.org
2. issue init 3
3. Launch vncviewer on windows box and connect to mylinuxbox.org:1
4. Wait for X to come up on vncviewer
5. Back to ssh and issue init 4

How come is it possible?
Is there something I forgot?

Thanks in advance for your reply

Regards,
Carmine Moleti

jennifer knoell

That sounds like xdmcp is not enabled in GDM... in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf you
need to make sure "enable=true" under [xdmcp]. It defaults to false, which
is why you get that error.

Jen

carmine moleti

First off, Thanks for your reply.


you

I've double checked that settings in gdm.conf, and xdmcp is enabled.

Regards,
Carmine

carmine moleti

....Oops, too quick reply.

There are times when vncviewer replies with: "Unknown authentication
scheme!".

Clueless.

Regards,
Carmine

faux_pseudo

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That makes it a vncviewer problem. Check there web page or
do***entation to see if they have a mailing list. They would be much
more famliliar with any problems it has then us.
Also google says there are 178 matches for 'vncviewer "Unknown
authentication scheme"' see if one of those has your answer.

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