From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 7:40:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135D237B400 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04158; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:40:52 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: Jaideep Bhatia Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: RE: [ot] good Xserver for Windows 2000? In-Reply-To: <017301c1df7f$b3b74e60$1250a8c0@Jaideep> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello - DISCLAIMER - I am not able to try this in FreeBSD, so the limit may differ. On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Jaideep Bhatia wrote: > I have run vnc server from a freebsd box and client on win2k machine, > and with vnc server running kde. It is a bit complicated process. Once > you start vncserver, it will ask you password and then assign you :1 or > :2 ... Whichever is free. From windows machine try connecting to that > server by giving server:x it should show you twm display. 'man vncserver' gives: vncserver [:_number_] ... etc ... :_number_ The dislay number to use. If omitted, the next free display number is used. There is apparently a limit on display numbers - I was able to assign '99' but not '101' - but the number seems to be greater than '2'. YMMV. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message