<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 6, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Michael Lemstad Maymann wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sudo apt-get install tightvncserver<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Then, when on the remote machine:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Use a VNC client on your other machine to connect to the backend, default port 5901.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Pete<br></blockquote>Hi Pete,<br><br>thanks !<br><br>I can't connect - from client:<br>vncviewer: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused<br>Unable to connect to VNC server<br><br>from server log:<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 All Rights Reserved.<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 See <a href="http://www.tightvnc.com/">http://www.tightvnc.com/</a> for information on<br>TightVNC<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 Desktop name 'X' (tv:1)<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t<br>06/12/09 10:38:27 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901<br>xrdb: No such file or directory<br>xrdb: can't open file '/home/maymann/.Xresources'<br><br>ps -ef | grep vnc<br>maymann 3153 1 0 10:38 pts/0 00:00:00 Xtightvnc :1 -desktop X<br>-auth /home/maymann/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -rfbwait<br>120000 -rfbauth /home/maymann/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901<br>-fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/ -co /etc/X11/rgb<br>maymann 3157 1 0 10:38 pts/0<br>00:00:00 /bin/sh /home/maymann/.vnc/xstartup<br>maymann 3401 3338 0 10:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto vnc<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Dunno. IT just worked for me on a Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04 box. Try Googling those errors, I guess.</div><div><br></div><div>-Pete</div></body></html>