Setting up a Remote Desk Top View in Linux

Had a really hard time doing this.  There were two problems. VNC password and an ignored shift-key.

Host System

• VNC has it own password setup.  I was thinking that the password was the user on the host system.

• Setup a password using the first 8 chars of the system password.

$ vncpasswd

Using password file /home/stan/.vnc/passwd

Password: 

Verify:   

Would you like to enter a view-only password (y/n)? n

• Had a problem with the 'Shift' key not being seen.  The following page recommended using the '-nomodtweak' options.
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1296724

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

...

PORT=5900

There will be a port address given at the end that will need to be used in the VNC client.

Guest System

Found 3 options, all of which seem to work:

• Terminal Server Client
• using RealVNC vncviwer
• This can be seen running the following command from a commandline.
• $ vncviewer -?
• The copy right is by RealVNC Ltd.
• Terminal Server Client is selected from the menu; however, is you do 'ps aux | grep vncviewer' you can see it.
• give IP:port
• Set protocol to 'VNC'
• Remote Desk Top Viewer
• gives a command line.
• TightVNC
• full source code available, but no opensource
• EXE for windows
• java jar
• $ java -jar tightvnc-jviewer.jar