Comments on: Enable remote desktop on linux using VNC

By: Alessandro Ilardo

Alessandro Ilardo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:57:53 +0000

Thanks for your article. very well done, I’m going add this link to my wiki.

By: Jcummings

Jcummings — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:01:27 +0000

Nice work – just a linux noob trying to get a long at the CLI, with a little hel from the gui.

This was a HUGE help and dead simple – Thank YOU

By: Alcides Magule

Alcides Magule — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:42:41 +0000

This is the error I get after installing VNC on Fedora 11.
Help.

[root@squid ~]# vncserver
xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name “squid.localdomain:3″ in “add” command

New ’squid.localdomain:3 (root)’ desktop is squid.localdomain:3

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/squid.localdomain:3.log

[root@squid ~]#

By: Siddhu

Siddhu — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:10:10 +0000

The article and very helpful, Thanks a lot

By: senthil

senthil — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:47:56 +0000

its very very helpful post for me

By: gaurav

gaurav — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:23:22 +0000

Really nice explanation. Atleast it worked for me!!!!

By: ptc

ptc — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:15:37 +0000

Nice and clean step by step guide to avoid all possible pitfalls one may encounter while doing this vnc setup; it really saved me a lot of time that otherwise I’d have to spend figuring these details out on my own. Thanks a bunch!

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:55:07 +0000

Marky:

“but I’m sure its possible because our company had 3 servers and the previous company technician configured the VNC server to view as same desktop on both remote and local”

You could configure remote desktop instead.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:50:39 +0000

Hi,

This was a nice post. I learned a new way to setup VNC.

I just have a query in here.
In RHEL 4 AS, the default value of /etc/sysconfig/vncservers VNCSERVERS=”1:myusername” .
In RHEL 5.3, VNCSERVERS=”2:myusername:”

I notice the difference in port there. (1 and 2)
I made experiment in RHEL 5.3 by putting these values: VNCSERVERS=”1:root 2:anotheruser”
When I restarted the service, It FAILED.
Error message is ” A VNC server is already running as :1 ”

But I have no vncserver running that time.

I changed it to VNCSERVERS=”3:root 2:anotheruser (in RHEL5.3)
I restart the service, it Ok.

I can connect to root user using port :3

I was expecting, before I did this experiment, that the port :1 was reserved to root.
because of this value VNCSERVERS=”2:myusername”

But it failed when I use this: VNCSERVERS=”1:root 2:anotheruser”.

If not the root, who owns port :1 then?

Appreciate your help

By: david

david — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:45:02 +0000

Got everything working fine except, is it possible to take over a currently running session that someone has started on console.