Set up a VNC server

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Revision as of 21:32, 24 November 2010 by imported>ThorstenStaerk

vnc allows you to connect to a remote computer's display over the network. It consists of a client and a server. The client is the viewer, the server provides the display. You can also allow browsers to view the server's desktop.

server

for a web browser

To configure vnc so it can be viewed from a web browser:

Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

Read and follow http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/all/tightvnc-java/download, then

sudo apt-get install tightvnc-java xfonts-base
vncserver -httpport 80

Ubuntu 9.10

sudo apt-get install tightvnc-java tightvncserver
vncserver -httpport 80