VNC

[Mark Haney]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 7:39:14 -0400, Timothy K. Wagner <tkw722 at adelphia.net>  
wrote:
  Are there any other details to setting up a VNC
> server and being able to connect to it? Thanks everyone!


Yeah there are a couple of other things that I found out when I started  
using it on my boxes instead of exporting X over SSH.  fire up a terminal  
session on your FC box in any manner you choose (ssh, telnet, etc) and run  
vcnpasswd.  This will create a default set of files (like what apps to run  
when you connect, etc) and also a password to use to authenticate to VNC.   
Then go into the config file (/etc/sysconfig/vncservers) and uncomment and  
change the line from

VNCSERVERS="0:root" (or whatever the default is) to
VNCSERVERS="1:username here" for the user you want to long into. As always  
it's never good to login as root for anything.  You can leave the default  
display as 0, but I've had problems with it as 0 when GNOME or KDE is also  
running on the machine.

HTH.



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Mark Haney
Network, Database and Systems Administration
DoctorDirectory.com Inc.