papaschtroumpf Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 (edited) I can't get the KDE desktop sharing working in mdk 10.0 official powerpack. the old "rfbdrake" works but the built in solution (which uses kdenetworks-krfb) doesn't work. An ethereal trace shows that it tried to do a DNS lookup for the client and fails (which is understandable because the client is on the same LAN with no DNS lookup setup). I had this working fine in 9.2. Mode Note: Moved from software by phunni Edited May 3, 2005 by Qchem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 have you tried just putting in the IP? did you modify /etc/hosts so that the hostname automatically resolves to the IP of the other machine? i.e.: 192.168.x.x mybox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 (edited) yes, it doesn;t work. It looks like reverse-DNS doesn't use the hosts file. How do I install the source rpm so that I can look at the code? I did urpmi "kdenetwork-3.2-17.1.100mdk.src.rpm", it prompted me for a bunch of dependencies (which I find weird) but sasid OK, but now I don;t see the source. I would have expected it to show up in /usr/src. What am I doing wrong? I've never "unpacked" source rpms before. Edited June 14, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 The source will probably be somewhere under /usr/src/RPM. If you enter the IP address, DNS/hosts is not used... I assume you can ping between these boxes? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 yes, the two boxes ping and work just fine. In fact if I run x0rfbserver (the ancestor to the KDE desktop sharing) I can connect just fine. I do connect by IP address, but the issue is that the *server* is issuing a reverse-DNS query which doesn't get answered since the client is on the same LAN and uses a non routable address (172.16....). My best guess is that the server is trying to log something like "connection request from hostname" instead of simply logging the IP address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 Suppose you could always run your own nameserver... Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted June 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 that's probably the answer, although someone at work said something about reverse DNS always going straight to the root server and possibly bypassing the local server, so I'm looking into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted May 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 Well I never had it working under MAndrake 10.0, I skipped 10.1 but I installed LE2005 this weekend and KDE desktop sharing works great, which is a good thing since it was my main incentive for upgrading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 3, 2005 Report Share Posted May 3, 2005 I've marked this as solved (is upgrading the entire distro an efficient way of solving a problem... ), if anyone still wants to find a different workaround let me know and I'll remove the solved tag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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