Technical Worker

I'm having some fun with RedHat Fedora FC5. After I install it, I want to be able to operate it from my laptop. I download RealVNC's free product, and got it working, once. After a reinstallation, I'm having a bit of "additional fun" in getting it to work again.

Some things I've learned.

• Edit > /etc/sysconfig/vncservers and removing comments:
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  # VNCSERVERS="2:myusername"
  # VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800x600"
• You have to have port 5900 open and an additional port above 5900 for each additional terminal session. You do that in the security console (System, Administration, Security Level and Firewall, then open the "Other ports" section)
• To get VNCServer to automatically start I had to enter "chkconfig --level 345 vncserver on"
• My WindowsXP client needed to have it's local firewall disabled.

At this point, I could use the VNC Viewer client to remotely control an already loged-on linux session on the server, but what did I need to do for it to allow me to remotely enter a username and password, I wondered.

Here's a site that helped: http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/1298/0/1/1/

Fedora IRC on FreeNode gave more help.

Learned about PasteBin http://rafb.net/paste/
editing /root/.vnc/xstartup
/sbin/service vncserver restart
nano -w xstartup in

sudo setup & system services allowed

log had errors though: http://rafb.net/paste/results/HjOBQE57.html

On IRC, LockDown gave me the following link: http://fedorasolved.org/network-solutions/vncserver-setup/

Tonight, having started vncserver from a putty ssh session in the user account, running vncServer against the port number returned at startup worked. It's not exactly how it use to work, but I'm getting to the right destination. Now to make vncserver be running already for whoever connects with it.

Getting VNCServer to start automatically: http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=209