On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:22 -0800, Tom Spec wrote: > I'd like to setup my Fedora 8 machine as a VNC server so I can login > to the Gnome desktop from a Windows XP machine using RealVNC. Does > anyone have a simple guide for this? For some reason I can't get it > to work. I'm not looking for anything complicated, I just want this > setup for ONE user (prefereably without an additional password in VNC > if possible.) ---- login as user open terminal application $ vncpasswd # set user password for logging in via vnc then su to root $ su - # emacs /etc/sysconfig/vncservers # something like this... VNCSERVERS="1:craig" ARGS="-geometry 800x600 -depth 8 -alwaysshared " # Season to taste Then also in my home directory... # cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh # # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc #[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources #xsetroot -solid grey #vncconfig -iconic & #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & #gnome-session & HTH Craig