On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Ripley</b> <<a href="mailto:vitaminjoe@gmail.com">vitaminjoe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/24/07, Joacim J <<a href="mailto:jocke4news@gmail.com">jocke4news@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have tried running it over VNC but get:<br>><br>> ======================================<br>> root@frodo
:/home/joacim#<br>> /usr/local/mythtv_svn_r14230/bin/mythtv-setup<br>> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server<br>> Xlib: No protocol specified<br>><br>> mythtv-setup: cannot connect to X server :
1.0<br>> ======================================<br>><br>> How can I run this?<br><br>How are you attempting to use VNC? There are basically two ways to<br>get VNC access to your desktop. One is to run the Xvnc server and one
<br>is to use the the VNC module for X. Perhaps you should take a look at<br>this:<br><br><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=259448">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=259448</a></blockquote><div><br>
Yes, that's exactly the guide I have used to set it up. I have also tried x11vnc with similar problem.<br>Using that guide (Xvnc) on another machine didn't managed to start Firefox on the remote machine. <br> </div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Is it possible/better to start mythtv-setup from a regular SSH session and<br>> in that case how?
<br><br>You can tunnel X apps over SSH quite easily. Just use a command like:<br> ssh -X <hostname><br><br>And then run your X apps. If you need more info, try this:<br><a href="http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/XoverSSH/X-over-SSH2.html">
http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/XoverSSH/X-over-SSH2.html</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I will try that to get forward.<br>I have used Fedora on my Linux boxes before and must say that VNC work a lot better (or at least more simple). Nowdays I have switched to Kubuntu on all boxes.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br>Joacim