Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:17:31 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Ken Quach <duckeo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xvnc + inetd Message-ID: <42BE9CDB.5040502@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <89415954050626001752c3c470@mail.gmail.com> References: <89415954050626001752c3c470@mail.gmail.com>
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Ken Quach wrote: >I'm trying to turn FreeBSD5.4 into a 'terminal server' of sorts, >allowing users to VNC in to access various network related utilities. > >What I'm seeing is a gray screen when connecting into vnc, which I >know is indicative of not having a window manager set up. > >My question is when running xvnc through inetd, I can specify which >user to run it as. > >I've tried using root and nobody, as well as a 'vnc' user which I >created. In all cases it seems not to read the ~/.vnc/xstartup file as >I expect it would (e.g. /root/.xvnc/xstartup). > >I've followed various guides to ensure settings are correct but now I'm stumped. > >Various config files are below. Any ideas as to what else I need to change? > > > Uhm, why not just use kdm? It appears that all you need is a X[dm] login based server and you don't need Xvnc at all. Refer to ssh's information on X port forwarding and info on how to setup kdm properly. -Garrett
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