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  • Minimum Install VNC Remote Desktop Server on Centos

    On this tutorial we are going to install VNC server on a Centos 5.6 Linux VPS. The objective is to install minimum packages to save disk space and keep the package installation minimum.

    To install VNC server and Gnome desktop, run this command:


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

    adduser johndoe
    passwd johndoe

    su - johndoe

    vncpasswd

    ls .vnc/

    You’ll see: passwd this file is storing the password for login to VNC session

    exit

    Next is editing VNC server configuration /etc/sysconfig/vncservers and add the new user to list of VNC server:
    nano /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
    Add the user to list of VNC server:
    VNCSERVERS="1:johndoe"
    Now let’s start the vncserver service to generate xstartup script where we’ll configure it to start Gnome desktop environment.

    service vncserver start
    service vncserver stop

    su - johndoe

    ls .vnc/
    You’ll see: <hostname>:1.log passwd xstartup

    We need to modify the xstartup script so Gnome session is called when we start the VNC server

    nano .vnc/xstartup
    modify:

    #!/bin/sh

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

    [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
    [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
    xsetroot -solid grey
    vncconfig -iconic &
    xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
    twm &
    to:

    #!/bin/sh

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

    [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
    [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
    xsetroot -solid grey
    vncconfig -iconic &
    xterm -geometry 1024x768 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
    gnome-session &


    Save the modification, go back as root and let’s start the VNC server
    exit
    service vncserver start
    Download Tight VNC client here: http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html

    After you installed the Tight VNC client, run it and you’ll see this form:





    On the VNC Server field, insert your VPS IP address followed with ‘:1′ and then click on Connect. You’ll be asked for a password, this is the password you created when you run vncpasswd command.

    If you need VPS hosting with VNC remote desktop installed, please contact ProHosterz at www.prohosterz.com or email info@prohosterz.com, they have a great VPS service
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