Description of problem: Terminal Services Prototype fails to work when upgrading system that has vnc configured to natively remote the :0 desktop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-4.0.7 How reproducible: Always on this system. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC2, Configure VNC with ReaLNVC Native X Desktop support for :0 desktop. I.e. load vnc module in xorg.conf. Sucessful remote access to :0. Upgrade vnc for FC2 from updates-released. 2.Upgrade FC2 to FC3T3. VNC operates as in FC2 with support for :0, but no support for additional logins. 3. Actual results: Native X Desktop support for :0 works and additional destops can be started manually on different ports, but connection to port 5900 only connects to :0 Expected results: VNC connection to port 5900 should bring up logon screen. Logging in as different users should connect to differnent displays. Additional info: There really isn't any documentation on how the terminal services prototype is supposed to work, although starting new displays is a desireable feature. I can't check anything in the configuration because there isn't any explanation or how-to about how it should work. But there are probably other people who have the Native X Desktop support configured and they will probably all try to get the terminal services prototype to work so you should include some kind of description of how to reconcile the two or at least warn people that they are incompatable.
Mark, any idea what's going on with that?
Yeah, I think its probably just that the vnc module is already using that port. You can configure the port GDM uses for VNC in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf Its best to just discuss this stuff on fedora-desktop rather than logging bugs, though. Closing as NOTABUG Thanks
Gee, actually that did occur to me and I tried removing the vnc module. With the module removed there was no vnc conectivity. I also thought gdm.conf was a reasonable place to look for some kind of configuration settings, but there is nothing in my gdm.conf that has anything to do with vnc or even ports. I did check that DiallowTCP setting was off. Again if there was any kind of explanation how this was going to work I would check my configuration but there is nothing that gives any kind of explanation. My gdm.conf was updated by the new installation and has the same size and time-stamp as factory-gdm.conf.
Mystery Solved! Fedora 3 Release Notes imply that this functionality is installed as part of the the Fedora 3 base distribution. In fact this functionallity is part of the fedora-extras package vnc-ltcs-config package. Installation of this package establishes this functionality and does not even need the VNC Native X Desktop support for :0 to be removed, although it probably should. I really think the Fedora 3 release notes are misleading about this functionality.