Re: [tlug] Remote desktop viewer not connecting

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Romeo, Christian,

Thank you for responding.

Seems I didn't, and don't, have a VNC server running. Neither "ps -ef |
grep -i vnc" nor "netstat -ntlp" came back with anything indicating that
it is up and running.

Which is weird, since I'm running the Remote Desktop guy from
System->Preferences, and the GUI there says I have started the remote
desktop server and that my computer is ready to accept connections. If
that is running, but no VNC server is, then what the heck does that GUI
think it's doing?

So I tried running vncserver from the command line, and made sure it was
running:

$ ps -ef | grep -i vnc
dave     11273     1  0 12:44 pts/0    00:00:00 Xtightvnc :1 -desktop X
-httpd /usr/share/tightvnc-java -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-for-dave-wLMbnI/database -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24
-rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth /home/dave/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/
-co /etc/X11/rgb
dave     11296     1  0 12:44 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/sh
/home/dave/.vnc/xstartup
$ netstat -ntlp
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6001            0.0.0.0:*              
LISTEN      15966/Xtightvnc
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5801            0.0.0.0:*              
LISTEN      15966/Xtightvnc
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5901            0.0.0.0:*              
LISTEN      15966/Xtightvnc

... but, I still get the same refusal from the client side (even with
Firewall turned off on server side).

So where I am at is this:

What service should the Remote Desktop be running, and how can I verify
that it is?

Even if I've got a VNC server running, it seems I'm still refusing
connections. Why is that?

When I start the VNC server, it gives me the name of a log file, which
contains this:
$ more /home/dave/.vnc/homebase:1.log
15/12/10 12:55:36 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
15/12/10 12:55:36 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
15/12/10 12:55:36 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
15/12/10 12:55:36 All Rights Reserved.
15/12/10 12:55:36 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
15/12/10 12:55:36 Desktop name 'X' (homebase:1)
15/12/10 12:55:36 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
15/12/10 12:55:36 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
15/12/10 12:55:36 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
15/12/10 12:55:36   URL http://homebase:5801
xrdb: No such file or directory
xrdb: can't open file '/home/dave/.Xresources'

I checked to see if I should install "xrdb", but it is already
installed, so I'm not sure if that warning at the end is that significant.

Any ideas?

-- 
Dave M G