Remote Administration

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I have a server now currently using Opensuse 12.1 with the KDE4 desktop. I made it a samba file server which was easy enough and shares movies and music over to the other 4 users in my house. Oddly enough I’m having two issues with it…
One was solved. I made a single login to access the file server and all 4 users were to use it. I found out that if one was using the login, the others couldn’t. So I made all of us each our own login and that solved the issue.
The second issue is rather complicated. I want to have the server running in a way that I can access the desktop remotely and use an admin login to change settings, etc via VNC. I’ve enabled it in Opensuse. It was simple. Just one click of the mouse.
But everytime I use the VNC client on my Mac, it says “connection refused” or if I do get a login screen, it won’t let me in and then says connection refused.
Does anyone know of a good VNC client to use?? Or if there is something else I’m missing???

If someone has any advice???

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On 2012-03-11 21:16, knightjp wrote:
> was simple. Just one click of the mouse.
> But everytime I use the VNC client on my Mac, it says “connection
> refused” or if I do get a login screen, it won’t let me in and then says
> connection refused.

As root? I think it is an intended feature (to refuse connection).

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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I wouldn’t use vnc but FreeNX and use the NoMachine NX client on the Mac. I recommend FreeNX over the Nomachine NX free edition (which is limited to one client). A working FreeNX for openSUSE 12.1 is available in my repo. There are a couple other builds though. If you try NX, you will see that it is much faster than vnc.

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Thanks for that… .will do. I’ll you guys updated on the status…

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hi please_try_again, would there be something you recommend for android ?

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I don’t know.

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ok :slight_smile: thanks

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Solved… I tried Chicken of the VNC, and I tried the FreeNX. Yes I could’e gotten the FreeNX working, but then I decided to quite the whole thing, reinstall openSUSE, this time using the minimal X and use the ssh protocol instead. Its fast, secure and it uses the command-line interface, which makes it relatively fast. For remote administration its about perfect.

I like the idea of the FreeNX; using the ssh protocol for a GUI based remote access, but I think the normal text based ssh is good enough. Besides its openSUSE. Which means that I can use yast in the terminal command line prompt on the Mac.