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Hello,
Can anyone please let me know..
I have Desktop environment only on Port 5901 and rest of the ports I only get a black X.

Thanks a lot TheFu for the quick reply.

When you say WM+DE do I need to insert (shown in color)



Or uncomment the following lines (shown in color)

Hello,

I have the following system


I have installed tightvnc and xfce desktop environment


Now I am able to run the vncserver which works perfectly for ssh tunnelling using ...

Hi,
I have been able to setup fluxbox (installed from an account user1). Now I wanted to create another account user2 (which I did using useradd command).

I was able to access user2 via vnc and...

Hello,
I had earlier been able to login remotely (using vnc) to ubuntu server 18.04 running xfce4. I am now however running into the following problem

Whenever I log in I only get a blank...

I am relatively new with Ubuntu. I had no problems in the past with XFCE4 but now it is creating this error that I am not able to understand.

I did the installation of xfce4 (I want to run some...

Ok I tried to install xbuntu desktop do I need to reset somewhere ? I am still getting the same desktop environment ?



Do I need to reset/delete/refresh session somewhere. Can anyone show me...

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply. The reason for xfce install was to keep it light as I have to access it remotely. In the previous install (I did this 3-4 years ago) I didn't run into any such...

Hello,
I am fairly new to ubuntu so details (commands) would be helpful. I have installed the following


I somehow am not able to open the terminal window as well as few other applications. It...

Hello,
I have ubuntu server and have trouble with SFTP using key based authentication.

Whenever I use Filezilla from a specific PC (key based authentication) it changes the user directory's...

I see your points QIII and Autodave.

Thank you both for the replies. I will go for a clean install. However, I do have the following questions based on your answers

Is this the norm every two...

Hello I have done an upgrade from an older version long time back and wanted to double check if this is the best way. I do not wish to install from scratch.

My current installation is


...

I was able to check and solve the problem but I want to make sure

I did the 'localhost' option while starting the VNC server.

However, while searching I used the nestat -ntlup command and saw...

Thanks for the quick reply. Could you tell me how to go about doing this or checking. I had set this up long time back for to connect from Windows using Putty. Only recently I saw this so I don't...

Hello,
I recently setup my MAC to access ubuntu server with tightvnc. For that I setup ssh tunnel (with key based authentication) using the command


ssh -i /home/xxx/key -L 5900:localhost:5900...

Thanks Nerdrton and papibe

These are my fstab settings


if I keep noauto does that mean the drives will not get mounted ? If that is the case don't I just comment out the entry? Or does it...

Hi,
It is not possible for me to physically access the server and so anytime fstab fails (due to a drive (External HD) being unavailable it is a big problem for me. I still want the system to...

Hello,
I have Ubuntu 12.XX Server on which I installed the tightvnc package. I have been able to connect fine from my laptop into the server through TightVNC (SSH Tunneling) as well as without SSH. ...

Thanks ian-weisser,
Where should I put the $echo $output>/tmp/cron_debug_file line (at the end of the script or somewhere in between).

Hello,
I am trying to include as much information as possible because I am not able to figure out why the cron.job is not running.
I made two files for running on cron.hourly. When I run the ...

thanks. Yes indeed Winscp along with Putty is a great solution that we have been using. However, we still need the GUI due to the software application installed there which is the reason for having...

Hi,

My server is ubuntu 15.X version. I have gone through the

link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI


I am have been using Xorg package on the server since we have a GUI...

Hello all,
I have been able to successfully instal tightvncserver on the server end (UBuntu LTS 12) and tightvncviewer on client end (Windows 8). It all works fine without any problems I am able to...

Worked like a charm.....ofnuts.....Thanks!

The folder .installer was missing somehow because it was hidden didn't get copied or extracted from .iso file so searched for the folder and transferred...

sorry about that Iowan

This is the update of my O.S ofcourse this is not the main issue here but thanks for pointing it out.


I am running the script from the local folder with



So it...