VNC Server setup

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Mon Nov 12 22:45:16 UTC 2007


that looks like it was built with tcp-wrappers libs

Craig

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 07:09 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Tom Spec wrote:
> > I'd like to setup my Fedora 8 machine as a VNC server so I can login to the Gnome desktop from a Windows XP machine using RealVNC.  Does anyone have a simple guide for this?  For some reason I can't get it to work. I'm not looking for anything complicated, I just want this setup for ONE user (prefereably without an additional password in VNC if possible.)
> 
> SUSE does it this way, it has some advantages over Red Hat's:
> === snip ===
> # default: off
> # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM 
> login \
> #	prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1024x768, 16bit depth.
> service vnc1
> {
> 	disable         = yes
> 	socket_type     = stream
> 	protocol        = tcp
> 	wait            = no
> 	user            = nobody
> 	server          = /usr/bin/Xvnc
> 	server_args     = -SecurityTypes None -inetd -once -query localhost 
> -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16
> 	type		= UNLISTED
> 	port		= 5901
> }
> # default: off
> # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM 
> login \
> #	prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1280x1024, 16bit depth.
> service vnc2
> {
> 	type		= UNLISTED
> 	port		= 5902
> 	socket_type	= stream
> 	protocol	= tcp
> 	wait		= no
> 	user		= nobody
> 	server		= /usr/bin/Xvnc
> 	server_args	= -SecurityTypes None -inetd -once -query localhost 
> -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 16
> 	disable		= yes
> }
> # default: off
> # description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM 
> login \
> #	prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1600x1200, 16bit depth.
> service vnc3
> {
> 	type		= UNLISTED
> 	port		= 5903
> 	socket_type	= stream
> 	protocol	= tcp
> 	wait		= no
> 	user		= nobody
> 	server		= /usr/bin/Xvnc
> 	server_args	= -SecurityTypes None -inetd -once -query localhost 
> -geometry 1600x1200 -depth 16
> 	disable		= yes
> }
> # default: off
> # description: This serves out the vncviewer Java applet for the VNC \
> #	server running on port 5901, (vnc port 1).
> service vnchttpd1
> {
> 	disable         = yes
> 	socket_type     = stream
> 	protocol        = tcp
> 	wait            = no
> 	user            = nobody
> 	server          = /usr/bin/vnc_inetd_httpd
> 	server_args     = 1024 768 5901
> 	type		= UNLISTED
> 	port		= 5801
> }
> # default: off
> # description: This serves out the vncviewer Java applet for the VNC \
> #	server running on port 5902, (vnc port 2).
> service vnchttpd2
> {
> 	type		= UNLISTED
> 	port		= 5802
> 	socket_type	= stream
> 	protocol	= tcp
> 	wait		= no
> 	user		= nobody
> 	server		= /usr/bin/vnc_inetd_httpd
> 	server_args	= 1280 1024 5902
> 	disable		= yes
> }
> # default: off
> # description: This serves out the vncviewer Java applet for the VNC \
> #	server running on port 5902, (vnc port 3).
> service vnchttpd3
> {
> 	type		= UNLISTED
> 	port		= 5803
> 	socket_type	= stream
> 	protocol	= tcp
> 	wait		= no
> 	user		= nobody
> 	server		= /usr/bin/vnc_inetd_httpd
> 	server_args	= 1600 1200 5903
> 	disable		= yes
> }
> === snip ===
> 
> You might need to open ports on your firewall, whichever way you do it.
> 
> Is RealVNC available for Windows? I use tightvnc. it came on my opensuse 
> virtual cd.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> John
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