Activating VNC
 

Hi I'm renting my own vps in an effort to learn as much as I can about running a Linux based web server. It's Fedore Core 4 and I'm very keen to access the graphical desktop of my VPS remotely.

I would like to download tightvnc as a client on my windows laptop.

My question is what needs to be done on my vps in order for it to work.

I've read some stuff although don't quite understand it. I believe I would set the remote desktop preferences to "allow others to view my desktopp" however then I would need to secure vnc with ssh tunnelling. Can someone help me out abit please.

secure vnc
 

assuming you have vnc set up right here is an explanation of what you need to do...

sshvnc

or if you understand this...follow it...

Edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers uncomment lines
Name server…set port access
Su user switch user
Vncpasswd user set password for user
Vncserver –localhost sets file conditions
Vncserver –user starts vncserver
Vncserver –kill :2 kills vncstarted
Vim /home/.vnc/xstartup edit lines #twm&
startkde&
firestarter allow port 5901 for lan clients
Vncserver –localhost starts up vncserver
Chkconfig –level 2345 vncserver on sets startup on vnc


Optional
Ssh –l ‘computername’ –L 15902:localhost:5904 ‘hostname’
Vncviewer –encoding hextile

here are a couple more links



http://wssg.berkeley.edu/personal/karl/docs/vnc.html
http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/56.html


baldur

all you have to do is make sure vncserver start at boot. If you want X to start when you connect to the server. Uncomment these two lines in /home/userid/.vnc/xstartup

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Also, when you first startup vncserver on the server it will request you to create a password. This will be your password to connect to your session. Don't forget vncserver session is tied with your user account.