Well I have a project I am working on that would work great using knoppix on stripped-down pc's as terminals supporting samba-shared printers.

One of the musts is that I need to have VNC at startup for remote administration/support.

I booted two machines on the same network (they can see each other, ping-wise) with two knoppix 5.0 DVD's. I went to KDE MENU->Control Center->Internet & Network->Desktop Sharing on both machines. I checked the "Allow uninvited connections" and "Allow uninvited connections to control the desktop" and unchecked all the other options. I used no password to keep things simple.

I opened a screen console and got the ip addresses of the machines using ifconfig.

At this point I was able to VNC into either machine from the other. They are both running the exact same version of VNC so that variable should be out of the equation. I was having problems with VNC from XP but this test told me I -COULD- make the machines talk to each other since I could make this most-simple solution work.

Now I rebooted one machine into XP and tried using RealVNC (which is the product we will be using on XP, for now) in that configuration. I was having a problem with the VNC window appearing for a brief second and closing just when the display was made. Occasionally I had a KDE error report window open on the Knoppix desktop.

I made sure my firewall running on the XP box was not blocking the Knoppix machine. I also ran the RealVNC listener and server. This has been working for the most part. Sometimes Knoppix 5.0 still will close the connection unexpectedly. This is on my home network where I have NO problems with VNC from my XP box in the front room to my dedicated SuSE linux server in the home office.

This is how I got VNC working on my Knoppix situation. I hope it gets you somewhere.

I am saving my knoppix.sh and configs.tbz on a thumb drive. I now want to remaster my Knoppix so that it automatically does the "myconfig=scan" during the boot.