tons of questions from a new user: vnc, ssh, shares, ...

[cpg]

I am having big problems with shares. My original F10 account does not have access to the shares and when I go to http://hda and delete that account it automatically recreates it, but without share access.

I have tried to follow the VNC tutorial, but I got a bit lost. I did the following:

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yum -y install vnc-server vncserver

This didn't happen for me:
"The first time it runs it will ask for setting up a password. You
can also specify a size, which I typically do a hair smaller than the
desktop I plan to use it from. Example for 1280x1024:

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vncserver -geometry 1250x1000" chkconfig vncserver on

First kill the VNC session: vncserver -kill :1

.vnc/xstartup

and make sure it has these two lines uncommented, per the comment there:

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# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Now restart the vncserver: vncserver

I then opened port 5900 in the F10 firewall and tried to connect to it with VNCViewer, but it could not connect.

The problem is my hda is a server and therefore only has a screen when I install operating systems.

I understand the security issues with VNC and that is why I would prefer to get SSH setup and working for remote access any time. It would be fantastic if that could be come an app.

I really like HDA, but it still needs a lot of work and I would like to help. I could do some image editing, I enjoy working with PS and images like the front page of amahi.org could do with a face lift.

Thanks

[cpg]

Fedora 10 is the stable release at the moment. Some issues are still expected, however.

I am having big problems with shares. My original F10 account does not have access to the shares and when I go to http://hda and delete that account it automatically recreates it, but without share access.

This is interesting. Only when an account is not deleted fully
this can occur. Can you provide more specific details and/or
screenshots? This sounds like a bug.

about vncserver, you can check that it started with:

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pgrep vnc

if there is number as the output, it's the process number of the
vnc server and it should be working.