I should also add that if you do not have a window manager installed, you are going to have problems when starting VNC.On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:03 pm, Stephen Furlong wrote:
Right, step one done :)
rpm -ivh tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing... ################################################## tightvnc-server ##################################################
(ignore line breaks)
So how do I configure the server now?
Had a quick look on tightvnc's webpage, and the suggested vncserver command pulls up a "sh: line 1: vncserver: command not found" error
Well, line 1 of the vncserver startup script says #!/usr/bin/perl, so I would guess that perl is not installed. 'urpmi perl'
Also, you have a choice to run vncserver as a service, or as a user.
Run it as a service, so it automatically starts on reboot and is always available, by editing /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and then doing 'service vnc start'
The other option is to just run it as user and this is nice if you don't want it running all the time by just typing vncserver as a user.
It will use the default desktop or the desktop specified in ~/.desktop, which is what I do because I run flux in my vnc sessions, but KDE as a local user.
I am not thinking real well today - I should have asked you what you are trying to do, instead of just helping you do what you are asking. (This is the newbie list, after all...) Do you want to be able to administer this machine remotely, run programs on this machine controlled/displayed on a remote machine, or what? Also, what OS will the other machine be running? Are you comfortable doing things from the command line on the server? Or do you want the GUI interface?
As with most things in Linux, there is more then one way to do the same thing, and the best option for you may not be the one you think it is...
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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