How to set up vnc server?
VNC Server does not show you the login screen - instead it takes you straight to the desktop, after you have logged in. If your goal is make sure that the users can log in remotely with a GUI without interrupting the other users who are already logged in, here is what you need to do.
First, install vnc onto your machine.
sudo apt-get install vnc4server
For each user, you can make them set a vnc password
vncpasswd
that asks for a password. Afterwards, each user can log in remotely (via the command line) and set up their own VNC server:
vncserver
This will output something like
New 'machine:1 (user)' desktop is machine:1
Creating default startup script /home/user/.vnc/xstartup Starting applications specified in /home/user/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/user/.vnc/machine:1.log
Once this is done, each user can log in to the GUI of their respective accounts using your machine's ip address and the desktop session number. In the above example, if the IP address of the machine is 10.0.0.1 then you can can put 10.0.0.1:1
as the server to connect to in the VNC client.
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Rogach
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Rogach over 1 year
I want to set up a vncserver on my machine. I need each remote user to start separate session - so they see the login screen after connecting, log in, and so on - without interrupting another users.
How this can be done?
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Rogach over 12 yearsThe problem is, that I saw exactly what I described - user just typed "vncviewer host" and got a full login screen. The problem is that admin in that place was not very helpful - he failed to describe how it works, seems he just forgot.
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Sudipta Chatterjee over 12 yearsPossibly the
vncpasswd
would work then instead of the regular password? Or did the above solve your problem? -
Rogach over 12 yearsActually, this thread nearly solved my problem: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122402 But it does not work on 10.10 - gdm login greeter hangs :( It seems to be fixed in 11.04, though.