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[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]. Like all good [GPL] software there are at least three popular variants: * [RealVNC|http://www.realvnc.com/] (the "original", commercially supported) * [TightVNC|http://www.tightvnc.com/] (concentrating on speeding up the protocol using compression) * [UltraVNC|http://www.uvnc.com/] (concentrating on adding features, like Microsoft authentication & file tranfer) Read more about [VNC at Wikipedia|WikiPedia:VNC]. !! Setting up your X server as a VNC server These instructions are for Ubuntu, and were tested on 6.10. apt-get install vnc4server In the <tt>Modules</tt> section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf <pre> Load "vnc" </pre> And in the Screen section: <pre> Option "passwordFile" "/root/.vncpasswd" </pre> Create a password file: <pre> sudo vncpasswd /root/.vncpasswd </pre> And you're done. Using a VNC viewer on another machine you can now connect to your X session. 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.
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