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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Installing VNC Server in Linux (CentOS)

How to install VNC server in CentOS


Install Required Packets using yum

# yum install vnc-server gnome-desktop xorg-x11-xinit xterm gnome-applets gnome-session gnome-themes gnome-panel gdm firefox dbus-x11

Set Password for VNC server user

# vncpasswd



Type new password and confirm it for accessing vnc server

Note:- To set password to user you must login with that user to create vnc password.

# vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

VNCSERVERS="1:root"
VNCSERVERARGS[2]=”-geometry 800×600 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost”


#service vncserver start
#service vncserver stop

#vi .vnc/xstartup

Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
 
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc


# service vncserver start

It done. Now connect to vnc server from vncviewer with <IP_Address>:1


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