[ale] Xvnc setup

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 16:35:06 EDT 2012


Anybody has an idea how to make vncserver to listen on TCP not on TCP6 ?

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> So far I did base debian install "no task select", apt-get install
> dropbear, xvnc4server, icewm. Vncserver starts with no problems except
> missing bunch of fonts. I do have xfonts-base installed. But vncviewer
> cannot do the connection. When I do netstat -an I can see Xvnc listens
> on TCP6
>
> tcp        0     52 192.168.10.118:ssh      192.168.10.117:3730     ESTABLISHED
> tcp6       0      0 [::]:5901               [::]:*                  LISTEN
>
> Is that what cause the problem ?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To setup X remote access to server do you have to setup real display,
>>> keyboard, mouse on the system first and then run vnc-server. Or there
>>> is software lets say "Xvnc server" that outputs only over network with
>>> login manager and so on necessary for running any X software. I don't
>>> know how to explain it even. Don't trow rocks please :)
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>> No, as long has you have X and a windows manager installed and
>> vncserver you should be good. I have several headless systems like
>> this.
>>
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