From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 21:44:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD4B37B41B for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3S4hri9068357; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 00:43:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: vnc lameness From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: VB Cc: Nathan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020427214153.A6953@sunny.localdomain> References: <20020426204439.B713@sunny.localdomain> <20020426220825.351cf9cc.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> <20020427214153.A6953@sunny.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 28 Apr 2002 00:43:53 -0400 Message-Id: <1019969033.742.4.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 01:41, VB wrote: > > > > > > > what display# is VNC running on? you should be able to see this when looking at the process....the number after the color, like 'Xvnc :1' > > when you are pointing your win2k machine at the FreeBSD box are you specifying to connect to the display on which VNC is listening? if you're FreeBSD box is at 10.0.0.1, for example, then you should point your win2k box at 10.0.0.1:1 - that is, assuming that your VNC server is running on display 1. > > You are correct: From W2K, typing in "192.168.0.1:1" connects me to X on FBSD. Thanks for that. I am half way there. > > But the lesson you have imparted to me, ie., to include screen numbers, does that explain why I still cannot connect from FBSD to W2K? W2K does not have screen numbers (ttys?) right? The proper procedure from X should be "vncviewer", "192.168.0.33", and voila, right? Is there something else I need to do to connect from FBSD to W2K? For vnc from FreeBSD to Windows, you usually use: vncviewer w2k-host:0 Joe > > Thank you, > > Eric > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message