On Monday 12 March 2007 09:30, James Ashburner wrote:
> I'm trying to configure VNC on Mandriva 2007 to behave in the way
> it does on SUSE. At the moment I can quite happily use VNC to
> connect to a desktop so long as a user is already logged in. What
> I'd like to do is to VNC to the login screen.
>
> I've followed some instructions on doing this through xinetd but
> can't seem to get it working at all. The instructions I followed
> were based on Red Hat initially and then Gentoo, neither of which
> helped. Tightvnc simply states it was unable to connect to the
> server.
>
> There is currently no firewall running on the server side so that's
> certainly not the problem. I'm running KDM.
>
> James
Here's an extract from my record of trying something similar (whole
file is at
www.salisburys.net/linuxlog.html). Note this was in 2004
so some things may have changed!
3) tell kdm to allow remote logins, changing the line
in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc to enable xdmcp (the remote login protocol)
[Xdmcp]Enable=true
4) tell kdm which hosts are allowed to login, adding the allowable
host names (one per line) to the end of /etc/kde3/kdm/Xaccess
5) restart kdm to activate it all and await logins
HTH, Peter
