Hi ,
I recently purchased one month Linux virtual dedicated server from GoDaddy. I am able to connect to it using SSH. However, Remote desktop is not enabled. I can't connect to it using remote desktop. I only can use SSH. Could you please inform me how can I enable Remote Desktop by using SSH ?

Which distro is it using?

After login through ssh, use: "#vncpasswd" to set the vnc password on the server.

Then start the vncserver service on the using following command:
"#vncserver"

Then from your machine execute following command:
#vncviewer <ipaddress:1>

This will connect you to the remote server

ssh is a standard remote interface for the linux machine. And there are can't be any GUI applications on linux server - you simply take a linux for a windows.

Hi,

I found another solution for my problem. I downloaded and installed VNC in the server. However, when I try to start the service , I get this error message ..

Couldn't start Xvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
Couldn't start Xvnc process.

Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
10/02/08 10:10:54 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
10/02/08 10:10:54 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
10/02/08 10:10:54 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
10/02/08 10:10:54 All Rights Reserved.
10/02/08 10:10:54 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
10/02/08 10:10:54 Desktop name 'X' (ip-68-178-227-61.ip.secureserver.net:1)
10/02/08 10:10:54 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
10/02/08 10:10:54 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
10/02/08 10:10:54 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
10/02/08 10:10:54 URL http://ip-68-178-227-61.ip.secureserver.net:5801
_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
failed to set default font path 'unix/:7100'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
10/02/08 10:10:55 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
10/02/08 10:10:55 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
10/02/08 10:10:55 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
10/02/08 10:10:55 All Rights Reserved.
10/02/08 10:10:55 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
10/02/08 10:10:55 Desktop name 'X' (ip-68-178-227-61.ip.secureserver.net:1)
10/02/08 10:10:55 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
10/02/08 10:10:55 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
10/02/08 10:10:55 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
10/02/08 10:10:55 URL http://ip-68-178-227-61.ip.secureserver.net:5801
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' not found - ignoring

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

what is the reason for this ?. What is the solution ?

I do not think that the server has X installed. Try "vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf". My bet is that there is no such file. This is probably a server that does not have a GUI at all. It is adminstered remotely with scripts and ssh.

I tried "vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and I got an empty page. How can I install X ? Please advise as I am new to linux

Which distro are you using?

Hi,
I am using Fedora 7 . I get this error :

# system-config-display
No video cards were found on this machine, exiting

I guess you need to do install xorg packages. You need to execute something like:
#yum install xorg-x11*

What OS are you connecting from. The server doesn't need to have X running to run a graphical program on a remote x-terminal, but some of the libraries may be needed. From a Linux machine you could access the server with "ssh -X user@host" and then enter in the name of command you want to run, like "sudo /path/to/system-config-users" and have that utility show up on your screen. This will be faster than having an entire session displayed. If you are connecting from Windows, you can install Cygwin/X and use ssh instead of putty.

In either case, you can log into the server and then use xinit to start a session.

Hi,
I am connectiong from Microsoft XP. but , I have not yet tried VNC client as I can't the server. So I am currenly using SSH connection using Putty.

I tried the following:

# service vncserver start
Starting VNC server: 5:root WARNING: initlog is deprecated and will be removed in a future release
vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set.

# xinit

_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ip-68-178-227-61.ip.secureserver.net:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Fedora Core 7 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux ip-68-178-227-61.ip.secureserver.net 2.6.9-023stab043.1-smp #1 SMP Mon Mar 5 16:35:19 MSK 2007 i686
Build Date: 21 January 2008
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-16.fc7
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Feb 21 00:43:09 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Parse error on line 47 of section Monitor in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
"Monitor" is not a valid keyword in this section.
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.