Julien Dal Col wrote:
hello everybody,
I'm a complete newbie (1st time posting to a mailing list, beginer in the
unix world, never heard of SSH or other things like that) and so I ask for
your indulgence if I do something wrong or don't understand something...
now that said, I need the help and advices of some people with skills in VNC
servers configuration.
1st of all, who I am and what I want (and don't want) to do:
- I want to setup a home server (mainly file server) and administrate it
remotely
- I chosed to install Ubuntu 8.10 on it (my choice is discutable according
to many linux advanced users, but this is another topic)
- I'm a complete beginer, and I would like to use as few terminal and manual
editing of configuration files as possible
- I installed webmin in order to administrate that server remotely (I can do
almost everything I need this way)
- I want to add a VNC server in order to be able to performe graphically
some operations I can't do using webmin
With that in mind, ubuntu is a reasonable choice. To use vnc on any
unix/linux installation, best way to start is to see if vnc is somehow
bundled with the system. For ubuntu: System -> Administration ->
SynapcitcPackageManager. In there search for 'vnc'. This will show a
list of vnc-related packages. Read the description carefully to see what
you want.
For ubuntu, I'd advice to use one of the next:
* `vino`, which provides a msWindows like vnc-session: The
console-desktop is available in the vnc session.
* `vnc4server`, which provides new sessions for every connection.
Others either are libaries, viewer-side applications, add-ons or have
extended capabilities.
Since I don't want to ever touch my server (that will be
screen,mouse&keyboardless, stored in a cupboard), I need a VNC server that
will be active before login.
I checked this:
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html
but there's many thing I don't understand so I don't know if it is even
related to what I want to do...
If any of you know how I can achieve my goal, I would ve very grateful for
any help or link to find some.
(since I'm really not an expert, please use simple words ;-) )
if any of you knows a solution not involving VNC and believes that it would
be more suitable for what I want to do, please let me also know about it.
thank you very much in advance for the quality of your answers
-J-
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