[WBEL-users] Linux and more that 16 VNC ports

[Pete Stevens]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Denis Croombs wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am trying to get more than 16 VNC sessions working on a Whitebox server
> with
> VNC v4.0, I have over 50 running from /etc/inittab with no problems, except
> that when I try and connect to the 17 connected port (any port number but
> always the 17th) I get a connection refused error.
>
> I think this is to do with the number of Xsessions that are allowed to be
> run on the server ?

I haven't got a whitebox machine to hand with X installed, but Redhat 9 and
Fedora Core 2 both have

/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

# Maximum open XDMCP sessions at any point in time
MaxSessions=16

Try increasing this value.

Yours,

Pete Stevens
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