Thursday, January 21, 2010

How to Install a VNC Server in Fedora

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a way to share the graphical desktop of one computer (server) with a remote computer (client). The client's keyboard and mouse input are transmitted over a network and control of the remote computer and all programs and commands are handled by the server. Fedora does not come with a VNC server application by default, but it can be installed via the software repository. Once installed, a password must be provided for the VNC server. This password should be unique to the VNC server and not the login password for the user.


Follow these steps!

Step 1 : Open a terminal window. The terminal window will be found in the operating system's main "Application" menu, under either "System Tools" or "Utilities". You will be presented with a command prompt where you will type the following commands.

Step 2: Type "su" to switch to the root user. If you are not a su logged in.

Step 3: Type the command "yum install vnc-server.i386" to install the software.

Step 4: Start the server by the command : vncserver

Step 5: Setup a good password for the vncserver and Go!

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