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BoyLinux · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:41 am Post subject:

Probably will not work because I think they are limited for connections.
But tightVNC should be an esy recompile as a package. If you search for tightvnc on snapshot.debian.net and go from there.
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ecowan · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject: VNC [u]servers[/u] won't install

Ray, that's a vnc client. We're trying to run X4.1 as a vnc server.
- Erny
p.s. Every week or so I try again. Oddly, sometimes I find that XN will install one of the vnc servers, but still it never works. So I remove it again.

p.p.s. I reply in the hope that someone might offer some helpful hints such as how to determine why my vnc server won't start up. (See my other posts.)
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Ray Greene · Xplorer Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

Arne: The problem is that being a headless machine I need to have a VNC connection before logging on, and since the Remote Desktop Sharing doesn't work until someone is logged I'm stuck.

BoyLinux: I'm trying to avoid compiling apps, I prefer to use packages as I've found out the hard way that there's less chance of messing things up.

Erny: I was just using the client to test the tightvnc server on the same machine.

I've set up the machine to auto login and I've installed RealVNC as a service (see http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=28857) since RDS always crashes on me. It's not an elegant solution but it will do the job in the meantime.

Anyone know how to configure RealVNC to start before KDE?

bryantrv · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject:

I would suggest using NX rather than vnc- you can download it from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php - for the server make sure you download both client and node packages and install them first.
The only drawback is I'm not sure if the free edition supports more than one connection, though it might.
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Ray Greene · Xplorer Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

Thanks Chris, I'll have a look at NX. I only need one connection so that isn't a problem.

Arne Anka · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

Ray Greene · Xplorer Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 13

I have just installed NX on Xandros but I found that with the Xandros NX client installed I couldn't install the node and server. I had to install the client from the NX site. They must be different versions.

Hopefully I'll get time today to set up NX.

carbon_unit · Xandrosianding Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Posts: 837

Yeah, the Xandros version of NX is different.
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absancen · Xplorer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 37

I followed the instructions to access my xandros desktop from another computer, but is it possible to access it from anywhere, or only from my home network? I have tried remotely but it doesn't work. I use a router, should I change any settings on it? Thanks for your help.

vandaboy · Xplorer Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 22

You will need to open and forward port 5900 on the router to the computer you are trying to control. (your Xandros box)

absancen · Xplorer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 37

thanks... that works.

geofgibson · Xplorer Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 44

I've been searching all over and there are a lot of references to this problem, but not much help.

Xandros 4.1 OCE using RealVNC, running from inetd.

When I start vncserver, I look at the log and find "Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'"

Well, I found a reference to the font in a fonts.alias file, but, does anybody actually know how to SOLVE this problem?
I've found references to xfs, which Xandros doesn't appear to use. Is there some other font server I should be editing? Perhaps I need to edit some path variable?

Thanks.

fihlp · Xplorer Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 3

thanks. very useful.