Hi Bob question on getting TurboVNC running

Aaron D. Johnson adj at fnord.greeley.co.us
Wed Feb 19 02:17:31 UTC 2025


Phil Marsh writes:
> Thanks.  However, my other server's TurboVNC starts OK using a Telnet
> terminal window.

Stephen is on the right track here.  The two servers' environments are
different in a way that matters to TurboVNC.  This may well include
TurboVNC itself.  Not a TurboVNC user myself, SSH X11 forwarding works
for my use cases.  But if I were stuck in your situation, I'd be
starting out comparing the contents of the TurboVNC log files on
server A and server B.  Read them side by side...  Use diff...  There
are plenty of tools for this.

Also would be good to compare package lists between the two servers.
And the process environment variables.

Further question...  It is 2025.  Why are you using the plain text
telnet protocol for any traffic between your computers?  SSH has been
a thing for 30 years now.  (Well, almost...  July 1995 was the first
source release.)  Key based authentication and not typing passwords is
kinda nice.  Join us in the 21st century...  "ssh" is shorter to type
than "telnet", too.

- Aaron


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