My approach : 1. as a normal user, run vncserver directly. $ vncserver vncserver will ask you to offer a password, and then tell you it is ready by following message ... new 'xxx:1(yyy)' desktop is xxx:1 starting applications specified in /home/yyy/.vnc/xstartup logfile...(skip) where xxx=your hostname, yyy=your user name 2.[optional] Chenck your vncserver is running $ ps -ef | grep vnc You should see a process Xvnc is running in the background. 3.Make sure your firewall had opened TCP port 5901. By default VNC will use this port for communication. You can do this by using # setup and choose firewall setup | customize , add a tcp port 5901 manually.This move should be completed by a root account. 4.[optional] Check your firewall setting and make sure this port is open. # iptables -L | grep 5901 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:5901 5.if your FC2 is connected to internet directly, you should be able to VNC your FC2 now :) However, most computers may stay behind a firewall in these days, you may consider to use SSH port forwarding to access your FC2. A good tutorial can be found at http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html I had a FC2 act as my firewall, and my desktop is in my private network. I use following words to connect my desktop remotely : putty -L 5901:172.16.0.1:5901 yyy@xxxxxxx where putty = ssh client on windows, yyy=username, xxx=your firewall host name. After this SSH port forwarding is built, you can run viewer.exe on windows, type in localhost:1 to access your desktop now :) Sorry for my poor English. Hope these steps above can help you build your vnc connection; any comments or suggestions are also welcome :) Patrick å ä, 2004-06-11 07:39, Timothy K. Wagner åéï > Ladies and Gentlemen! > > Now that I've gotten Fedora working great, I have really been interested in being able to use it ANYWHERE! :-D So, I am trying to get VNC working. I had a hopeful outlook thinking that I would just need to launch the VNC server on my Linux box and that would be it. When I use the VNC viewer on my laptop, I put the IP address of my desktop in, and it doesn't connect. Are there any other details to setting up a VNC server and being able to connect to it? Thanks everyone! > > Timothy K. Wagner > tkw722@xxxxxxxxxxxx >
