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I was trying to make a VNC server in my Ubuntu 11.04, which can allow me to login even system reboots. Therefore, I have tried as following, but from vncviewer I can't connect.

Server listening

  1. Install

    $ sudo -s
# apt-get install vnc4server xinetd

  2. Security

    # vncpasswd /root/.vncpasswd
Password:
Verify:

  3. As a service

    # vim /etc/xinetd.d/Xvnc
service Xvnc
{
    type = UNLISTED
    disable = no
    socket_type = stream
    protocol = tcp
    wait = yes
    user = root
    server = /usr/bin/Xvnc
    server_args = -inetd :1 -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -once -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc -DisconnectClients=0 -NeverShared passwordFile=/root/.vncpasswd
    port = 5901
}

  4. Start the service

    # service xinetd stop
# service xinetd start

Client trying

$ vncviewer 192.168.1.125:1

TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.0.90 - built May 10 2011 10:04:22
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group
Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.

Wed Sep  7 10:08:20 2011
 CConn:       connected to host 192.168.1.125 port 5901
 main:        read: Connection reset by peer (104)
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2 Answers2

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You might want to try x11vnc - a very powerful, relatively easy to use solution.

Please see my previous answer on a similar topic for more info. That answer also points towards a number of different ways to set x11vnc up as a service on login. I have this working for my own personal server and it's been completely reliable.

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  • if i already have other VNC's, what should i do to remove them and freshly put x11vnc according to that other link. –  Sep 13 '11 at 21:11
  • Looking at your apt-get line above, I guess you'd just apt-get remove vnc4server xinetd, then sudo apt-get install x11vnc. Certainly on my system here, xinetd is not installed, so it should be a simple reversal to undo what you've done and install x11vnc. But if they're working, perhaps you could just leave them working - x11vnc is incredibly powerful/versatile/easy to setup, but at the end of the day, delivers the same basic functionality as vnc4server! – Scaine Sep 14 '11 at 17:46
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I'm expecting that you already install vnc-server and xinetd only you have you do the following

 iptables –I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT
 chkconfig vncserver on
 server vncserver restart

reboot then try on other PC if it's working.

reboot

if you want to access outside make sure you allow the traffic from port 5900 of your Router with the IP address of your VNC server.

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