Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Getting VNC to Run



This has been a pain, but here goes:

Install Openssh

# sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

Test to make sure that the ssh is working.

# ssh localhost

The rest of this is a bit of guess from watching what Steve was doing.

Install x11vnc and vnc-java.

Connect to host machine using ssh.

ssh stan@XX.XX.X.XX

Start the x11vnc service on host machine.

x11vnc -forever -usepw -httpdir /usr/share/vnc-java/ -httpport 5800

There will be a port number given after the service starts.  The number given was 5901.

Open a terminal server client on the guest machine.

Computer:  xx.xx.x.xx:5901

Protocal:  VNC

User Name:  stan



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