I know that if I login locally (runlevel 5), I can invoke the "remote desktop" service from the GNOME desktop.

However, I am now connected remotely to my Fedora Core 8 machine, via SSH, and while X is running, I cannot access it via VNC for some reason.

I did 'ps aux' and I could not find any trace of a VNC server running (I think it should contain the string 'vino').

I found a nice article describing how to setup a VNC Server in Fedora (prefix the quoted path with the usual triple 'w' to actually read it):
But it seems to be using XVnc, not vino, which is the default VNC server in Fedora Core 8.

My question is: what do I need to do in order to re-establish the Vino VNC server *from the command line*, logged in remotely via SSH?

Thanks,
Joe

Wow! I was sure that someone here would come up with an answer by now. Unfortunately, it seems that Linux is so unpopular as a desktop (0.36% market share?) that even such a simple question goes unanswered. :-(

Anyway, I found the following article which suggests (like the previous one I posted) that the default VNC server that comes with the GNOME desktop (vino) is NOT the right one to use for an automatically loaded solution (i.e. upon reboot):

http://fedorasolved.org/network-solu...ncserver-setup

Can someone confirm my understanding?

Thanks,
Joe

P.S. The previous article that suggests so is older - from 2005:
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/11/10/co...ver-in-fedora/

From what I understand (and what I just did)

you probably want to run a install of the vnc-server, and then follow the instructions that you have from that article.

you can check to ensure that your package is installed.

Thank you very much for your answer, z1311. I wasn't sure whether I was asking the question correctly or whether I am in the right place to ask.

What I was concerned about was some conflict between the built-in Vino and vnc-server in the article to which I provided the link.

My understanding is that you just tried that and there is no problem. Therefore, I will go ahead and try just that. Thanks.

Joe

Why not just use ssh -X?

I need to connect from a Windows XP client, using PUTTY. Is there something similar to 'ssh -X' using PUTTY? If so, I very much prefer using this instead of VNC.

Thanks,
Joe

It's been a year since my homebuilt server went down. But I distinctly remember running a command to start vnc-server while logged in via ssh remotely. You'll need to end the command with an &, something like and you can close the shell without taking down the vnc-server. That was how I did it, and even with X not loaded, it automatically will load X for you so you can get the desktop via the vnc viewer remotely.

On FC8 (Fedora Core 8) it's vncserver, not vnc-server. Aside from that, everything else that you wrote is correct and accurate. It works very nicely. Thank you.

Joe