Absolutely newbie - vnc install on dedicated server
 

Recently bought dedicated server from hetzner.com

Running CentOS 5.5. how can i install the vnc using the putty?

thanks in advance guys

Welcome to LQ
As root type
It's possible you need to install rpmforge first
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRes...ories/RPMForge

Kind regards

Hi Andreas,

I installed a VNC server recently. Hence I will give a rough outline.

- Since you have CentOS 5.5 you will have a GUI.

- $> yum install vnc-server* (install the VNC server)

- $> service vncserver start

- $> vncpasswd ()provide a password

- $> vncserver

A message will be displayed saying 'New 'yourservername:1 username... this is important. Hence write it down.

I will assume you are running VNC as the root.

-$>cd ~

-$> cd .vnc
-$> vi xstartup

now uncomment the following lines.

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

This should do the trick. Also please configure SELINUX and iptables to suit your need.

I used $> lsof -i to identify the listening port and used iptables to configure the firewall.

Also see pages on how to setup vnc over ssh with putty maybe.

Oops! forgot a main step.

-$> vi xstartup

now uncomment the following lines.

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

at the end of this file.

-title "$VNCD... twm &

replace twm with startx

good luck