Introduction:
TigerVNC (Tiger Virtual Network Computing)
is a system for graphical desktop sharing which allows you to
remotely control other computers. TigerVNC works on the client-server
network. A server shares its output (vncserver) and a client
(vncviewer) connects to the server.
1. Installing VNC Server
~]# yum install tigervnc-server
Now we need to copy the configure the
configuration file as following:
~]# cp
/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service
/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service
Now need to edit the file, and here we can
mention the name of the user which we want to allow for desktop
sharing:
~]# vim
/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service
replace USER with the actual user name.
Leave the remaining lines of the file unmodified.
Following is the actual line in the file:
ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l USER -c
"/usr/bin/vncserver %i -geometry 1280x1024"
PIDFile=/home/USER/.vnc/%H%i.pid
Here we need to write Username instead of
USER, EX: if my username is vchauhan then line would we like that:
ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l vchauhan -c
"/usr/bin/vncserver %i -geometry 1280x1024"
3. save the changes and exit from file.
4. To make the changes take effect
immediately, issue the following command:
~]# systemctl daemon-reload
5. Set the password for the user or users
defined in the configuration file. Note that you need to switch from
root to USER first.
~]# su – vchauhan
~]$ vncpasswd
Password:
Verify:
Configuring
VNC Server for Two Users
1. First of all need to set the password
for the users which we are going to add into vnc
~]$ su - suresh
~]$ vncpasswd
Password:
Verify:
~]$ su - sonu
~]$ vncpasswd
Password:
Verify:
2. Now need to start the VNC server daemon
again:
~]# systemctl start vncserver@:1.service
Note: Here “1” is the display number,
we can type any number, after daemon reload a port number will be
start from the server, in my example, port number would be: 5901.
we can verify it:
~]# netstat -tupnl | grep 5901
Now we can access the server by using this
port using any given user name:
~]# vncviewer localhost:5901
Configuring
VNC Server for two users and two different displays
Now if we want to specify the different
port number for each user, so every user can have it's own desktop at
the same time, we need to specify the port number for them according
to following.
Those commands will start a VNC server
for suresh user to start on display 3, and a VNC server for sonu user
to start on display 4:
~]# systemctl start
vncserver-suresh@:3.service
~]# systemctl start
vncserver-sonu@:4.service
Terminating
a VNC session
We can disable the service for particular
display or user:
~]# systemctl disable
vncserver@:display_number.service
For the run time only we can disable the
service also:
~]# systemctl stop
vncserver@:display_number.service
Done........
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