Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

[Mark Shields]

On 10/12/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> Good morning all:
>
> For a couple days now I have been looking for a good simple setup that
> will allow me to run vnc on one of my gentoo workstations at home and
> connect to it from my windows box in another area of the house.  I am
> not going across the internet, or anything wild like that, just trying
> to keep an eye on my box (the active desktop in fluxbox) when im
> elsewhere in the house.  So far all the VNC HOW-Tos etc that I have read
> involve what appears to me to be very overly complex tunneling over ssh
> etc (a good thing if I was going over the internet, but for what im
> doing, totally un-necessary)
>
> When I lived in the Fedora world, I could just install vncserver and
> start it up and it connected me to my active desktop and away I went.
> If anyone can suggest a method or solution, I would be MOST
> appreciative.
>
> TIM
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> Timothy A. Holmes
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What you're looking for is a little more complicated.  If all you wanted was
a remote desktop you could connect to, then that's easily done.  Emerge
tightvnc then type vncserver :1.  It'll prompt you for a password, then you
use a vncviewer to connect to that host (format: host:display, so if your
server was 192.168.0.200, it would be 192.168.0.200:1).

But what it sounds like you want to do is connect to an existing X session,
am I right?  If so, follow this:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_VNC_to_connect_to_existing_X_Sessions

On a related note, I'm looking for something similar, but I want a user to
be presented with an xdm (or gdm) login.  Just one remote connection, one
resolution.


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- Mark Shields