I installed SUSE 10 server and I spent all day yesterday trying to get VNC to work. I'm trying to connect from my windows xp pro system to this Ssuse box. Would somebody give me step bt step instructions as to how to get VNC to work?

Thanks.

A pretty good step by step setup guide can be found here (yes I know that it is for Fedora Core but does work in many cases);

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/vnc/

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Thanks but I still can't get it to work. I must be missing a step some where. I have tried it using KDE and GNOME.

Does it work locally on the Linux system???

vncviewer 192.168.0.1:1

Use the ip adress of the Linux system inplace of the 192.168.0.1 address in the typed command above, you might want to try the same for the Windows vncviewer.

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Does it work locally on the Linux system???

vncviewer 192.168.0.1:1

Use the ip adress of the Linux system inplace of the 192.168.0.1 address in the typed command above, you might want to try the same for the Windows vncviewer.[/QUOTE]

I did use the IP address.

"Does it work locally on the Linux system???" I'm not sure what you are asking.

Can you use the vncviewer on the Linux system, open a terminal and type the command.

If it works locally then try again a specify exactly the same ip_address with the same port, i.e. 192.168.0.:1

The Windows version of vncviewer is looking to find the the server as just the default address without the port assignment (really looking for port 5900 and not 5901 or better).

Well I guess it just need to set over night. I came in this morning and it's working.

I don't know if I should start another thread or not but here goes.

I wnat to try FreeNX but I can't find it on my system (SUSE 10 server). Every thing I have read says that FreeNX comes with SUSE 10. How can I get?

Look here; http://repos.opensuse.org/NX/ hint:get both rpm packages

When I go here there is a SUSE 10 and 10.1 folder. Since I'm running SUSE 10 that is the one I would use. In side of these folders are other folders so which one do I use?

(hint:get both rpm packages) Why? What is the difference?

On your windows box you first need to run something like putty to connect to your Linux box and initially login. There's other software like free ssh or whatever that you can also use.
Ensure Port 22 SSH is open especially if you are going accross the public internet (i.e accessing your Linux box remotely). You'll need the IP address as well.

On your Linux box you need to enable your VNC server usually with a command like vncserver -2 which means start the server to work on console nr 2.

Now back on your windows box start your vncviewer program (like tightvnc or similar).

You should see a little box on your windows XP system.

Enter IPaddress:5902 (or Ipaddress:02) depending on which client vnc software you are using on Windows. The port nr is equal to the console nr so for console nr 2 use 5092 or 02 depending on the software.

Once you connect you should see a cnsole where you will have to start kde / gnome or whatever (from the Windows box).

Unless you have a very fast connection use compression otherwise you'll get quite a slow response if you've got a lot of graphics being sent.

When you've finished kill the vnc server process on the Linux box.


It's easier to test this locally so I'd do this at home before playing around with remote connections -- and don't start the X server on your linux box if you want to login from Windows.

Once you've got the basic connection working you can use Putty to "tunnel" even if ports are blocked --that's beyond the scope of this post but it DOES work.

The piece most people forget is that you have to do the original remote login (ssh / putty) first before any vnc connections will work.

Incidentally if you have a dynamic ISP address you'll have to find the IP address each time unless you use some type of dynamic dns updating (also beyond the scope of the post but google for it and there's plenty of info).

Cheers

-K