From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 15:14:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7533516A421 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0418513C45D for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:14:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so806600uge for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:14:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=kW/S+aeh4DzRkY61C/NAinXN4C3fgXoGmWVv9rPXGp/UHSh41LxdFsHWluFZPS3/Q68m/WZWUoL5MqrK5GVsOmmdCtCzGYfup3KqKcva7eirFtOzUDtvkvsozmOzT5yjP3CQTccydTkz4IGAg3e9+H+olS6aurg2GZlSkUgjgAM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=lIHXea7MOptJStrQA4jwHrzwA3redMon+PUfYmG7xbpL47g7cNFpIYv0i5K918o/1IukKTIH/CZ6h5vmqmCXmYzrEHnc/2J1WtI6nHDFJgiAWjLoobX9+HghgjiC4aQ+kHmwNbm7HbyVyNnQ2315MbKRxPNhRDYKUHIYn/70Rfs= Received: by 10.82.174.20 with SMTP id w20mr2763328bue.1185549277915; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h4sm3682865nfh.2007.07.27.08.14.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46AA0BD8.3030804@crackmonkey.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:14:32 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam J Richardson Subject: Xvnc query to gdm failing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:14:40 -0000 Hi all, I'm trying to use VNC to log into my FreeBSD laptop from another laptop [why? to learn how], but I'm stuck. I'm logged into gdm using display 0, typing this email at the keyboard that's physically attached to the gdm box. I'm getting the grey screen problem when I log in remotely though. The VNC client connects to Xvnc fine, but the gdm login client does not appear on the VNC display. A quick "netstat -an | grep 177" shows port udp/177 in LISTEN mode, as expected. I figure perhaps it's a user permissions problem. I'm using xinetd to run Xvnc as user "nobody", so perhaps "nobody" has no access rights to gdm? The only problem is, I can't seem to find gdm.conf. It doesn't exist on the system. The command sudo find / | grep gdm.conf yields nothing. Where is it storing its settings if not in gdm.conf? Adam J Richardson