Headless YellowDog

Longman, Bill longman at sharplabs.com
Thu Oct 7 18:38:30 MDT 2004


> You can configure the X server to be a vncserver as well 
> assuming a recent 
> enough version of VNC is installed.  I did it recently on a 
> redhat 7.3 & 8.0 
> box (x86) with vnc-4.0-1 from realvnc.com.
> 
> In your /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 config 
> file (which ever 
> is being used) put
> 
> 	Load "vnc"
> 
> in the 'Section "Module"' section.  And put
> 
> 	Option "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
> 
> in the section for your screen.  Make sure you ran vncpasswd 
> as root once and 
> then restart X and you should be able to connect to it from 
> another system 
> via
> 
> 	vncviewer remote_system:0

This is too cool. Get the vnc.so from their site and plunk it in your
X11/lib/modules/extensions directory and you're set.

Sweet, baby!


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