List, good afternoon,
Hopefully, I've overlooked something, but cannot think what.
Installed F14 on a Samsung NB30 netbook, from the RC2 XFCE CD. 'yum
update' last night (it updated nearly 450 programs/libraries).
Installed Vino (vino-2.31.91-1.fc14) but cannot log into into the
netbook's desktop from another machine.
(Had first tried vino-2.32.0-1.fc14 from 'test updates' repository,
but when I failed to log into that, reverted to this slightly earlier
version which is from the main F14 repository.)
Netbook is connected to local network, replies to pings, and can
access internet. Firewall set to 'trust' eth0 and wlan0; and tried
with firewall both enabled, and disabled. Same result, VNC client
reports failure to connect. (VNC client has unrestricted access to
the network, and can access all 4 other desktops on the network,
without problems.) A different VNC client (Krdc on Debian/KDE)
reports 'no server running at that address/port (5900)'.
Noticed that, on F13 (on another machine), had to run
'vino-preferences' before a VNC client could log in. Have run
'vino-preferences' on the netbook, allowed 'control of machine',
assigned a password, and tried with 'configure network to
automatically accept connections' either set, or unset; same results.
vino-preferences 'checks connectivity' and sometimes reports
(i) 'local network only, using name localhost' (which surprised me
because on the other machine using F13 it reports the machine name and
its IP address), or
(ii) it sometimes says the machine can be accessed using our external,
routable, IP address (which it cannot, because that's blocked at a
gateway and the internal network is NATted and there are no
port-forwards set).
Vino doesn't appear in the XFCE 'system services' graphical list.
Maybe it isn't running, just as KDE surmised.
Could I ask - how should I check if it is running, and is there a
specific command to start vino running? (Under F13, it seemed to run
after vino-preferences was run.)
Thanks for reading this far, grateful for any suggestions.
regards, Ron
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