VNC: starting automatically + current session

johannlo · #1 10th January 2006, 05:02 PM

Hi all

I"m trying to setup VNC so that it presents my CURRENT session (ie display 0) instead of starting a new session. i.e. anyone logging in via VNC can see exactly what I"m doing on my current desktop and vice versa. Can anyone advise? I read some snippets which talked about editing your X11 config but they didn't go into specifics. I take it you need to run it at boot?

I've tried editing the parameters in "/etc/sysconfig/vncservers" from "1:username" to login to "0:username" but it still creates a new display 1 unfortunately.

Also, on a related note, I can get VNC running OK manually (ie via typing "vncserver"), but for some funny reason "service vncserver start" fails always + "chkconfig vncserver on" seems to do nothing.

Any advice would be much appreciated

brunson · #2 10th January 2006, 05:09 PM

The vncserver process sets up separate sessions you can connect to. If you want to connect to the session on your monitor you don't need the vncserver service at all, just go to Desktop -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop and enable it. Then use vncviewer to connect to yourserver:0

johannlo · #3 10th January 2006, 08:52 PM

Thanks mate will try that when I get home

johannlo · #4 11th January 2006, 07:10 AM

It works great within my LAN... question is... is this VNC or is it something different? "ps aux |grep vnc" returns nothing, yet you can connect to it via a VNC client (I'm using the freeware RealVNC client).

More specifically, can I still use the SSH trick with it? I want ot be able to access it remotely but I am not forwarding the ports on my router until I can use SSH (and then I'm locking it down so only encrypted connections are allowed, this means you can only connect via an SSH tunnel correct?>)

Thanks for your experitise