On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:18 -0700, vampire janus wrote: > newbie question lang po- > paano mag setup ng vnc server? salamat!
as mentioned by others, you have options. remote X is great if what you want to do is run *one* X application remotely. i haven't used xdm myself, but others i work with have, works great for them. not sure what the benefits are though. vnc is good (as opposed to running remote X) if what you want to do is view your whole desktop remotely. I use it at work because my own PC sometimes goes off, but the box that vncserver is running on never does, so my desktop is always just as I left it even if my own computer goes off. oh yeah, the local box is also very slow,so vnc allows me to run apps on a faster box while I still get to use my local drives for backing up important data. i could use LTSP, but then my local drives and RAM go to waste. to run vnc, you need to run the vncserver at the, uh, server. figure out what your client's screen resolution is and go from there, e.g., I use icewm on a 1024x768 box where the icewm toolbar hides automatically, so i can generally set vncserver to use a desktop of around 1000x730 and it works pretty well. thus, on the server, you run something like this (i'm offline and i don't actually have vncserver on this laptop, man vncserver): vncserver -g 1000x730 man vncserver will tell you how to set the default colordepth. once it's running, it will choose a "port" to run on. if it's the first time you're running it, it will also ask for a password (and possibly a viewonly password). after it's started up, it'll tell you that it's running on localhost:1 or localhost:2 or whatever. or maybe just on :1 or :2. that tells you what port it's running on. on the client, you can now do: vncviewer [remote_ip]:[number] where number is the port number given by the vncserver. you may need to modify firewall rules on the server. there is a base port that is used (i think 60000 or similar, netstat -an | grep LISTEN to see what it is, or man vncserver) and the [number] is just an increment on top of the base port. so you will want to set firewall rules to allow the client to connect to a range of ports above the base number. there's probably a graphical way to do all that in your distro, but i wouldn't know how to setup any of that. some distros also allow you to view the actual X session you're running on the server via vnc. i know KDE has something like that. if you use KDE, it also has a bunch of graphical tools for setting up vnc. look into those. note: remote X is *much* faster and smaller than VNC. if you can use that, or xdm, those are better alternatives. if you can't use either of those then use vnc. good luck. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com http://monotremetech.blogspot.com Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Modularity - Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces. -- http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html#id2877537 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
