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<blockquote data-quote="qprfact" data-source="post: 991345" data-attributes="member: 42921"><p>Hopefully I am posting this question in the correct place!</p><p></p><p>I have a small home network, with a server running Ubuntu. To save money and space, the server does not have keyboard, mouse or screen attached, and use my MBP to "drive" it.</p><p></p><p>I do this by means of X11VNC on the server, and Chicken of the VNC on the Mac.</p><p></p><p>I get two odd situations, and am unsure if these are Mac issues or server ones!</p><p></p><p>The first is signing in - COTVNC displays the Ubuntu login screen. I enter my password. SOMETIMES it logs straight in, but that is not the usual situation - I may have to try 8 or 9 times to do this, getting "Reconnect / OK" messages which make no real odds whichever I do.</p><p></p><p>Is this just a glitch, or am I being really dim?</p><p></p><p>The second issue is keyboard going haywire - I will enter a text document or terminal in the COTVNC window, and the screen will just fill with a repeating character. Once this happens, the only real remedy is to restart GDM on the server. At which point issue #1 crops up again!</p><p></p><p>I am getting less and less reliant on a GUI, and am doing more things via SSH, but when it works it's really nice!</p><p></p><p>One other thing - I can happily COTVNC into other Ubuntu boxes in our network and don't seem to have the same issues. Not sure if that is relevant either.</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="qprfact, post: 991345, member: 42921"] Hopefully I am posting this question in the correct place! I have a small home network, with a server running Ubuntu. To save money and space, the server does not have keyboard, mouse or screen attached, and use my MBP to "drive" it. I do this by means of X11VNC on the server, and Chicken of the VNC on the Mac. I get two odd situations, and am unsure if these are Mac issues or server ones! The first is signing in - COTVNC displays the Ubuntu login screen. I enter my password. SOMETIMES it logs straight in, but that is not the usual situation - I may have to try 8 or 9 times to do this, getting "Reconnect / OK" messages which make no real odds whichever I do. Is this just a glitch, or am I being really dim? The second issue is keyboard going haywire - I will enter a text document or terminal in the COTVNC window, and the screen will just fill with a repeating character. Once this happens, the only real remedy is to restart GDM on the server. At which point issue #1 crops up again! I am getting less and less reliant on a GUI, and am doing more things via SSH, but when it works it's really nice! One other thing - I can happily COTVNC into other Ubuntu boxes in our network and don't seem to have the same issues. Not sure if that is relevant either. Thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]
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