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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi, I've looked throuigh previous threads and not found anything to help. I have tigervnc-server running, port 59000 & 5901 tcp & udp open. but unable to get vncviewer to function on the remote machine. I can run vncviewer localhost:1 and that works, but on the remote machine Code: [richard@g8jvm ~]$ vncviewer 192.168.101.2:1 TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.1.0 - built Mar 27 2012 12:59:01 Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. vncviewer: unable to open display "" If I (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 08/20/2012

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I connect to one of my work computers by VNC using the following

Code: vncviewer -via username@server_ip 127.0.0.1:xx -geometry 1300x800 I use this practically everyday to connect to our server and it ALWAYS worked fine with my F17 installation which has tigervnc 1.1

Now, I tried the same thing in my F18 installation and all I get is

Code: $ vncviewer -via username@server_ip 12

Just upgraded to Fedora 18 :)

I use vncviewer all over the place, and depended heavily on the '-via' option.

From what I can tell, tigervnc (vncviewer) on F18 was compiled without this option.

Say it ain't so!

Or am I missing a plugin or somethiing?

If it was compiled w/o -via, why?

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