[plug] VNC on startup

[Brock Woolf]

Firstly, congrats on your graduation Tim! :)

I did understand what you said about the whole VNC thing. I think I 
will go for the Xvnc route and
set it up on a startup script. My window manager is KDE.

I have been hearing a lot about ssh tunneling and it looks pretty 
interesting. I'll have do give it a go.
By any chance do you know if it requires your computer to have a static 
IP address, as my linux desktop
is getting it's internet connection routed from a linux server and the 
ip is dynamic. So i might not be able to do it?
:)
Anyways, thanks and for now i'm going to look into Xvnc.

- Brock

On 30/10/2004, at 9:09 AM, Tim White wrote:

> Brock Woolf wrote:
>
>> I am have a working VNC server on my Linux mandrake 10.0  box called: 
>> rfbdrake 1.0
>
> I haven't used mandrake for a while but from memory doesn't rfbdrake 
> have to be started after login. So this means that you have to login 
> first before it starts. Is that right?
> If so, which Window manager are you using. KDE, GNOME, Icewm...
> If you want it to start on login there is a file (normally .xsession 
> under Debian but could be .xinitrc for others) in your home directory 
> that you can use to create a startup script. NOTE: in my example below 
> I am using hypothetical command line switches and commands from my 
> system (kde3 starts kde for me).
> --- .xsession
> rfbdrake --passwd xyz && kde3
> ---
> If you want a VNC server running all the time without having to be 
> logged in then their is actually a separate xserver that does it 
> (Xvnc) and the actual server launcher `vncserver`. Using vncpasswd you 
> can set a passwd to be used for all your Xvnc servers. Then its a 
> matter of running a script on startup that starts the server. You 
> could even set up [g|k|x]dm to connect to the vnc server when you 
> login in rather than starting anther session, just don't logout when 
> you disconnect and you can connect from any computer with your passwd 
> (and even through a Java enabled browser if you want) and you session 
> will always be running even before you have logged in (it would give a 
> nice 'quick' startup effect)
> Tim
> p.s. If anything in this didn't make sense it is probably because I am 
> suffering from a lack of sleep as I have just graduated from High 
> School!!!!
>
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- Brock Woolf
MandrakeLinux - The OS of Choice :)