Re: How to start a VNC session

>>>> Dear Linux-users
>>>>
>>>> I am a relative newbie on Linux.
>>>>
>>>> On my file-server I run Fedora Core 4. But since I want to place my
>>>> file-server far from my work area, I want to control the machine
>>>> through
>>>> VNC.
>>>>
>>>> I have succeeded to first directly login to Linux en start a VNC (KDE)
>>>> server process, to which I can connect from the other machines in my
>>>> network. However, this way of working enforces me to log into Linux and
>>>> start that process manually each time my server went down (for whatever
>>>> reason).
>>>>
>>>> Therefore my question:
>>>>
>>>> How can I start a VNC server process at booting time? How can I arrange
>>>> that this VNC process show the log-in screen, thus allowing the VNC
>>>> client
>>>> to login as any user he wants to?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.raoul.shacknet.nu/2005/11/10/configure-vnc-server-in-fedora/
>>
>> Thank you. This helped a lot! But one answer raises the next question:
>>
>> How do I setup a SSH session from windows to the Linux machine?
>> Except from the ssh tunneling all works fine! But reading the link you
>> gave me, I want to run through an encrypted tunnel off course!
>> I managed to tunnel from the Linux machine to the (same) Linux machine,
>> but that was just to test the working of the servers etc. This test
>> succeeded.
>
> http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/ssh-howto.html
> http://fedoranews.org/dowen/sshkeys/

tx; on sourceforge.net I found free ssh tool s for windows (OpenSSH)
All works fine now!

Peter


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