I also am interested in this, we have servers all over the place, and all different types..
So a central admin platform would be very handy.. my question is this, does vnc send passwords as plain text? if it does, then I will immediatly distrust it for use over the internet.. if it uses some encryption, then its fantastic... wonder if it can be tunneled in SSH compressed...?? rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven Spears Sent: Sunday, 18 November 2001 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC Marcia: VNC is like PCAnywhere, which allows you to remotely administrate a computer. You can actually see the other computer in a window on your desktop. It's pretty cool, but slow over the Internet, so it's very benificial for LANs. I can't say that I've had any luck with VNC and 8.0; I'm currently working on it. I finally achieved success with 8.1, and it works well. Let me give you a few recources and then I will tell you what I did. This is the place there it actually comes from and is a big help - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ This site was also a help and may help you in the future for other things - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history.php Now on to what I had to do. I will try to do this step by step. 1. Install VNCServer in the Software Manager if you haven't already. 2. Open a konsole and tye this: vncserver You will be asked for a password and then verify it. You will then see it creating directories and such. 3. This is where things are different from 8.0. I had to navagate to /etc/sysconfig in 8.1 and open the vncserver file; it will look something like this # The VNCSERVERS variable is a list of display:user pairs. # # Uncomment the line below to start a VNC server on display :1 # as my 'myusername' (adjust this to your own). You will also # need to set a VNC password; run 'man vncpasswd' to see how # to do that. # # DO NOT RUN THIS SERVICE if your local area network is # untrusted! For a secure way of using VNC, see # <URL:http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html> VNCSERVERS="1:yourpassword" (put the password you chose in place of yourpassword) Save changes. You will have to be root to do it. Now, again, if were using 8.1 all you would have to do is go to another machine that has the viewer, and open the viewer. If you are in Linux, you will probably have to open it from a command line: vncviewer. When the little windows pops up, just type in the IP address of the machine and the konsole number whish is the "1" you see in the VNCSERVER line. Like this Little windows pops up - 192.168.1.5:1 Then you will be asked for the pass word you entered and off you go! Now, with 8.0, I'm not sure. I installed the server and then went to the command line and typed in vncserver and then put in the password. I then go to my other machine and follow what I did for 8.1. Unfortunetly, It only gives me a very meek XWindow manager, not KDE which I prefer. I don't see the vncserver file like in 8.1. I'm still working on what I have to do to get the full desktop, and if I find anything else out, I will forward the information. Please let me know if this has been any help to you. Steve On Saturday 17 November 2001 03:33 pm, you wrote: > Dear Steve, > > I am interested in using VNC. I have LM8 on my desktop and Windows 98/LM8 > dual boot on my laptop. Is this like using IP masquerade or is it very > different from that? > > Exactly what other information did you research to learn how to set it up? > What line did you edit and exactly how? I am quite the newbie when it comes > to any kind of networking. Thanks alot. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 14:53, you wrote: > > Thanks! > > > > Actually, I found the site and some others that were helpful and now I > > have it up and running on my local network as well as over the net. It > > works pretty good for what I need it for. > > > > All I had to do was edit one line and I was up and going. Oh, yeah, had > > to change the router to allow outside entry. Not too difficult. > > > > Again, thanks. > > > > Steve > > > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 12:33 pm, you wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > try this one: > > > > > > http://www.uk.research.att.com/ > > > > > > > Has anyone tried running a VNC server with Mandrake 8.1? I've tried > > > > but have had no luck, not that I claim to know what I'm going. But if > > > > anyone could point me to a site or where I could find some > > > > information, I would be thankful. > > > > > > Ivo :) > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ----------------------------------------
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