tightvnc - unable to connect with client

[to_kallon]

so here stands the situation:
i would like to clone my display across several networked machine without giving those machines the option to interface with the root display. to accomplish this i chose tightvnc.

[thecooptoo]

does it start oK ?
start vncserver and then see if the process is running

[hexstar]

You need to unblock the vnc ports on the server's firewall...

[to_kallon]

hexstar, that was my first suspicion, however, even without the firewall running the performance remains the same. additionally connecting to the localhost should not be making a connection over the ethernet adapter, so the firewall should not be involved at all anyway.

thecoptoo, the output from telnet looks the same as what you posted, except for the RFB line. still cannot use vncviewer with any success. i do have

[thecooptoo]

so is vnc actually running ?
on the server :

start the server and then whats the output of
ps -A |grep vnc

and also

nmap -sS 127.0.0.1
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[to_kallon]

vnc is running, with -desktop X (in case that's significant)

[ttw]

i would guess the message is comming from vncserver not being able to connect to your display, not from 'Xvnc' rejecting the connection[/code]. try manually setting your display variable via

[to_kallon]

apologies for the long time getting back, but thanks for the suggestions.
ttw, my DISPLAY is already set as :0.0
i use kdm locally to authenticate, do you think this could be causing an issue? shouldn't i still be seeing an attempt being made to do *something* even if authentication were broken?
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[thecooptoo]

can you connect to the server from the localhost
ie vncviewer localhost::5901
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[to_kallon]

i cannot.
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[thecooptoo]

as the same user that you have acess to the X-server on display 0 ( ie your regular user) ?
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[to_kallon]

i've tried both as root and as my uid (the only other user on the host) with the same results
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[thecooptoo]

error message ?

and then do ( as user)
xhost +

and try again
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[ttw]

to be honest, reading back through, i'm a bit confused as to what you're actually trying to achive (please note the question marks below)

you're running vncserver from a network machine and trying to connect it from another machine across the network ?

the vncserver start correctly and is listening on the port, you have verified that you get an RGB message when telnetting to the listening port ?

when you try and run the vncviewer from the remote machine you receive a "Error: cannot open display: " ?

OR

you are trying to connect back to the localhost as as test and are recieving an "Error: cannot open display: " ?

whatever you answer from the above you need to start including the "~/.xsession-error" file so that we can see something more concrete. there is probably also Xvnc error logs in "~/.vnc" directory, post that too.

current guess you need the following in /etc/hosts

[ttw]

[to_kallon]

i meant seeing something in the log, but i see your point.
/etc/hosts has had an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to localhost and my hostname from the beginning.
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[thecooptoo]

Id see what happens with all the variations
localhost::5901
187.0.0.1::5901
192.168.x.x::5901 ( depending on your subnet)

adn if you get a display then its not the vncserver
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[ttw]