Subject: Re: VNC and no localhost option on NetBSD ?
To: Niels S. Eliasen <nse@mac.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/27/2003 21:05:38
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:29:01AM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
> Hi guys
> Just an annoying problem....
> I use VNC for a _lot_ of different purposes.. various customers etc 
> etc...
> But  I always use VNC together with SSH, so the entire connection is 
> encrypted...
> 
> But when I try to start the "vncserver" with the "-localhost" option 
> always gives me a "connection refused"...
> But this only happens on NetBSD... Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, various Linux 
> does not have this problem....
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Logfile:
> [...]
> xrdb: Connection refused
> xrdb: Can't open display ':3'
> Eterm:  Error:  can't open display :3
> wmaker fatal error: could not open display ":3"

Could it be that the clients are trying /tmp/.X11-unix/X3 and Xvnc didn't
create it ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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