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1 CraigBox 1 [Acronym] for __V__irtual __N__etwork __C__omputing. VNC lets you export your display, and keyboard/mouse control, over the network. It was originally designed at [AT&T].
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3 Like all good [GPL] software there are at least three popular variants:
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5 * [RealVNC|http://www.realvnc.com/] (the "original", commercially supported)
6 * [TightVNC|http://www.tightvnc.com/] (concentrating on speeding up the protocol using compression)
7 * [UltraVNC|http://www.uvnc.com/] (concentrating on adding features, like Microsoft authentication & file tranfer)
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9 Read more about [VNC at Wikipedia|WikiPedia:VNC].
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12 !! Setting up your X server as a VNC server
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14 These instructions are for Ubuntu, and were tested on 6.10.
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16 apt-get install vnc4server
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18 In the <tt>Modules</tt> section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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20 Load "vnc"
21 </pre>
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23 And in the Screen section:
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25 Option "passwordFile" "/root/.vncpasswd"
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28 Create a password file:
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30 <pre>
31 sudo vncpasswd /root/.vncpasswd
32 </pre>
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34 And you're done. Using a VNC viewer on another machine you can now connect to your X session.
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36 There are other ways of doing this - [VNC GDM|http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/VNC_GDM] is a method of using VNC and XDMCP to give you a GDM window over VNC, and the [Vino|http://gnomejournal.org/article/29/remote-desktop-administration-using-vino] system runs a VNC session per user, which can be enabled from the GUI. You then log in with your own password.