I don't know if my approach is good or not, at least it already helped me to build a successful vnc connection. I start vncserver as a normal user, and ... that's it! And later on I can use viewer.exe on a windows to connect my vncserver without problem. However default ~/.vnc/xstart bash script file only start a twm desktop for you, I manually modify that file - by umcomment the first 2 lines and comment the rest of settings. that's what I do to build my vnc environment :) HTH. Patrick å ä, 2004-06-09 20:39, Julian Underwood åéï > Does anyone know how to start vncserver on the *console* of the remote > machine? I've had it so I can login and start a few apps, then go off > to another machine and see the entire console desktop (i.e. background > picture and all), remotely via vncviewer. I forgot how I did it > though. Is this possibly achieved by starting the vncserver somehow > before the user is prompted to login? It would be cool to have > vncserver work in such a way that it would start and supposed the remote > machine is sitting on the GUI login screen, the user could then proceed > to login as if they were sitting right in front of the unit. > > I have vncserver starting as a daemon, but doesn't seem to work in this > fashion. > > Ideas? > > TIA, > > Julian > > > > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:45, Ben Stringer wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 00:17, David Carter wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to enable rlogin and use Xserver remotely? > > > > Presumably you have a good reason not to use ssh, which is far more > > secure and handles the remoting of X apps very nicely, _so_... > > > > To enable rlogin, edit /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin and set disable to "no". > > Reload (or HUP) the xinetd service. > > > > To use a remote xserver, do the following: > > > > localhost$ xhost +remotehost > > localhost$ rlogin remotehost > > remotehost$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0 > > remotehost$ xclock & > > > > You should see the xclock appear on localhost's primary display. > > > > Cheers, Ben > > > > >
