Re: Windows to Linux VNC

From: Michael B. Levy (mblevy2000_at_optonline.net)
Date: 11/09/04

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    You must do the following:

    1) Make sure the ports are open (I think vnc is port 5901 -- verify this!)
    2) run vncpasswd *as a normal user*. I cannot emphasize that enough. If
    you run this as root, you'll only be able to log in to your system via vnc
    as root.
    3) run vncserver

    I should note that this requires a running X server on the target Linux
    machine. This will work differently from when you vnc into a windows box,
    in that this will start a whole new X session.

    If that's not what you want, try x0rfbserver, which I've tried, but found to
    be so slow (I have a cable line and my target had a cable line) it made me
    want to cry, or try krfb/krdc in KDE.

    Michael Levy

    Tpack wrote:

    > Hello all,
    > I have setup the latest Fedora release on a spare PC, and everything
    > works OK so far. I can use VNC to view my Windoze PC from Linux, but want
    > to use VNC to connect to my Linux PC. What do you have to setup/change in
    > Linux to get the PC to function as a VNC server?
    > Thanks,
    > tony

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