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Subject: Re: vnc demo's authentication error..
From: George Harvey
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:20:36 -0000

On 16-Oct-00, Á¤¼º±Ç wrote:
>Hi all.

>there are so many demo apps that I was interested in...

>When I run a vnc demo like followings..I've got a error..maybe caused
>authetications.

>$ ./vnc server ip:0
>./vnc: VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3)
>./vnc: VNC authentication failed

>Can you give method of using passwd file  to solve this problem? 
>any idea?

The VNC viewer distributed with Microwindows has the user password code
commented out, this can give the above error if you have a password set on
your server. Uncomment the getpass() call in vncviewer/rfbproto.c and
re-compile.

George


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