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darkstrike · Posted: Sat 24 Mar 2012, 12:09 Post subject: VNC server issues?

Hi all,

I do a lot of remoting into our family computers from abroad and mostly use VNC servers and viewers (most of the PCs are Windows-based, but I loathe Remote Desktop)

I installed a VNC server onto my old tinker box (running Puppy Lucid 5.28 w/ update 004) the other day, but...if I stay remotely connected to it through VNC for an extended period of time (say, 10+ minutes), the connection will disconnect and then when trying to reconnect I'll either just get a blank red screen in the VNC viewer or nothing will happen at all until I restart the computer the server is running on or restart X

Any ideas what might be causing this and how to fix it? I have no such issues on my windows machines and can stay connected for fun indefinitely when connecting to them from Linux or from another Windows machine. (I should note, the VNC server on my Lucid 5.28 box will start acting odd like this regardless of if I am connecting through VNC via WinXP, Win7, or even other Linux flavors [I have several VMs])

I had tried a different VNC .pet which didn't crap out like this one, but it crashed much more often so I had to revert back to this one because I can at least use the computer normally for awhile before it messes up.

darkstrike · Posted: Fri 30 Mar 2012, 19:48 Post subject:

I hate to bump my thread, but just doing it once (I know a lot of posts happen on this forum, so I thought maybe somebody with useful info missed my thread. I will not bump it again if I get no replies as it is not a big worry Smile

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afishe2000 · Joined: 29 Jan 2010 Posts: 34

Just to piggy-back on this thread.

I'm having problems getting VCN server to work on Slacko.

Pet seems to load ok and htop shows it up and running but I just can't make a connection.

I have VCN running on a DSL machine and have no problem with it.

I used this thread and am trying to use the puppy5 pet...

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63122

Thanks for any help available.

ally · Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 352 Location: lincoln

in answer to the slacko query I have been using tightvnc along with x11vncserver for ages

no problem connecting to a variety of my household machines across the network

also use wolgui to wake up etho connected machines too - excellent

I have dialled in from an external (internet) connection with port forwarding set on my router, only downside is the ip address lease changing so use teamviewer instead

not sure if the same is available for lucid though

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