On Saturday 07 June 2008 03:24:18 am Mike wrote: > Dave Stevens <geek <at> uniserve.com> writes: > > But does anyone know what I need to do to make the vncserver start up > > without a user login? And also it should be possible (or perhaps it will > > happen by default) that I can log in to the x session after I get access > > with vncviewer. References, howtos, pointers to documents welcome. > > OK what I do is as follows: > > On the machine that acts as the vnc server I add a section in xorg.conf > like: > Section "Module" > Load "vnc" > EndSection > > and also in the "screen" section there is a password line added > like: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "passwordFile" "/opt/local/etc/vnc/passwd" > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > That machine is booted to runlevel 5 and nothing further needed there. > > In the client machine I have entries in .ssh/config such as > > Host farend > #next line when port forwarding for ssh changes from 22 to 23456 > Port 23456 > ForwardAgent yes > Hostname farend.specialhost.co.uk > LocalForward 55900 localhost:5900 > > So in one terminal window I then: > ssh farend > and this sets up the tunnel with port forwarding from local 55900 > to remote 5900 > > Then I have a script which is run in a second terminal window that > essentially does > vncviewer -passwd ~/.vnc/passwd localhost:55900 > > Then this gives a vnc window to the server machine via the tunnel even if > the remote user has not yet logged in provided X on the server is running. > > I hope this helps. It does and seems as if it would work. I have stopped work on this because it seems vnc is unavoidably unacceptably slow. I tried Freenx and the nomachine linux client and it addresses the need for pre-login functionality nicely and gives much better throughput, allows higher resolutions, etc. Thanks for all replies. dave -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. -- Ursula K. LeGuin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
