[Box-Admins] best practice RFB for Squeak-based server

[Chris Muller]

Hi Levente and all, I unfortunately have only ever hobbled along with
"whatever I can get to work" when it comes to VNC.  It seems like it
always only barely works -- for example, using Squeak's RFB on on my
local laptop works fine viewing with Ubuntu's Remmina, but not the
commercial "vncviewer".

On box4, I'm not sure what our viewer is, Xtightvnc?  Or, is that the
Xtight server because I know I've used a "xtightvncviewer" before...

My strategy was to start RFB server in Squeak to accept local
connections only.  Then I was going to use ssh -X when I logged in to
box4 from terminal, and then, xtightvncviewer :6900.  Is this a flawed
strategy?  Your expertise could save me a lot of time from research
and trial and error by sharing your VNC best-practices with me.  :)

When I tried Xtightvnc :6900, it said:

=========
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
already running
=========

So yeah, Xtightvnc looks like a server, not a viewer, but I didn't
want to install xtightvncviewer without asking the box-admins team
leader first..

Best.