# xrdp + vnc not working **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\ **Created:** [October 23, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/xrdp-vnc-not-working/27556 "2015-10-23T11:32:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![b\_stute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@b\_stute](https://forums.suse.com/u/b_stute)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/xrdp-vnc-not-working/27556/1 "2015-10-23T11:32:25Z")
To allow windows user comfortable access to our SLES server we use xrdp. Installed packeges are [LIST] [_]xrdp 0.6.1 [_]xorg-x11-Xvnc 1.4.1 [/LIST] configuration is vanilla. When I try to connect to via rdp, I get a login screen, where I can provide my credentials and then select sesman-Xvnc as module A box pops up with the following content (hand copied) ` connecting to sesman ip 127.0.0.1 port 3350 sesman connect ok sending ling info to session manager, please wait... xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login successful for displa[text is truncated here] started connecting connecting to 127.0.0.1 5937 error - problem connecting` /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log looks good (or at least identical to the one on working installation on sles 11sp4) ```auto [20151023-10:17:03] [INFO] starting Xvnc session... [20151023-10:17:03] [INFO] starting xrdp-sessvc - xpid=24396 - wmpid=24395 [20151023-10:17:06] [INFO] ++ terminated session: username XXX, display :36.0, session_pid 24392, ip XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:52282 - socket: 7 [20151023-10:18:55] [INFO] scp thread on sck 7 started successfully [20151023-10:18:55] [INFO] ++ created session (access granted): username XXX, ip XXX.XXX.XXX.XX:52282 - socket: 7 [20151023-10:18:55] [INFO] starting Xvnc session. ``` Interestingly this leaves some processes behind (ps --forest) ```auto 24556 ? 00:00:00 Xvnc 24555 ? 00:00:00 startwm.sh 24584 ? 00:00:00 \\_ gnome-session ``` Moreover if start a Xvnc session manually with the identical parameters as specified in the sesman.ini only appended by -rfbauth I am able to connect to that session with Xrdp by choosing the vnc-any module. I am kind of stuck here and I do not really know where to look for clues, so any help is appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![b\_stute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@b\_stute](https://forums.suse.com/u/b_stute)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/xrdp-vnc-not-working/27556/2 "2015-10-27T17:03:56Z")
I got it working and it was really non-obvious and simple. Xvnc does not support 8bits color depth and will silently crash. So on the client side you have to specify a different depth. It occurred to me after I installed a more recent version of xrdp from X11:RemoteDesktop, which posts the full Xvnc call to the log file