I have a sparc server running solaris 9 and have just installed x11vnc
which seemed to go fine. But it seems that I have done something wrong
since I get a failure when I try to start it.

tjansson@server$ x11vnc -display :0.0

07/09/2006 14:38:49 x11vnc version: 0.7pre lastmod: 2004-12-23
07/09/2006 14:38:55 XOpenDisplay failed (:0.0)

I have found that this problem is that x11vnc connects to a real X11
session, which I guess isn't running. I think I would be better to have
a normal vnc server for solaris, but I can't seem to find any at
http://www.sunfreeware.com/

What would you recommend me to do? Is there another vnc server for
solaris 9 or is there a way to make x11vnc when the server isn't
connect physically to a monitor, keyboard and mouse?

Kind regards
Thomas Jansson

On 2006-09-07 13:55:22 +0100, "Thomas Jansson" <tjansson60@gmail.com> said:
>
> What would you recommend me to do? Is there another vnc server for
> solaris 9 or is there a way to make x11vnc when the server isn't
> connect physically to a monitor, keyboard and mouse?
>


I'm afraid I don't know for Solaris 9, but for 10 Xvnc comes on the SFW
disk, so it might be worth looking there in 9 too. You can then set it
up so that dtlogin starts Xvnc.

--tim

Tim Bradshaw skrev:

> > What would you recommend me to do? Is there another vnc server for
> > solaris 9 or is there a way to make x11vnc when the server isn't
> > connect physically to a monitor, keyboard and mouse?
>
> I'm afraid I don't know for Solaris 9, but for 10 Xvnc comes on the SFW
> disk, so it might be worth looking there in 9 too. You can then set it
> up so that dtlogin starts Xvnc.

I think the server has all the software from the SFW already installed
already, since I just recently got the server from the old admin. It
just seems so strange that it is so hard to find the vncserver for
solaris?

> I think the server has all the software from the SFW already installed
> already, since I just recently got the server from the old admin. It
> just seems so strange that it is so hard to find the vncserver for
> solaris?

Just for the reference - I found vncserver on
www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/ and it works fine. Guess the
server doesn't have all the SFW software anyways.