Setting VNC di RH9

1. On Redhat server, login with your username that you want to enable remote acess. In this example, I will use ‘admin’ user.

Redhat Gnome's desktop

2. Open Terminal, type ‘vncpasswd’. Type your password and verify password again. This command will use to set you password for remote access for the current user.

Set VNC password
3. Before next step, you need to logged on as root by type ’su root’.

Log as root using su
4. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers by type ‘ vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers’.
Note: If you are new to Linux, vi is an editor tool in command line mode on Linux.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
5. You’ll see text file as in the figure below. Next, I’ll edit on the highlight line.

/etc/sysconfig/vncservers
6. Uncomment on the highlight line.
If you have more than one usernames that want to enable remote acces, you can change VNCSERVERS value in this format, “1:username1 2:username2 3:username3 ….”. In this example, I have only one user which is root so this line of mine is ‘VNCSERVERS = “1:admin”‘.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

7. Now save the file and exit. To save file, hold ESC + ‘:’ and type ‘wq’ to write and
quit file.

Write and quit file in vi editor
8. Next, log off the user if you are not user ‘root’ and log in as root. Enable VNC
service by type ‘chkconfig vncserver on’. Then, start the VNC service by type
’service vncserver start’.




Set up VNC server as service and start
9. If you have firewall enable on Redhat, be sure that your firewall configuration won’t
block connection from remote computer by open port TCP 5901 for remote access.
Open Applications -> System Settings -> Security Level. Add ‘5901:tcp’ on Other
ports.
Note: VNC uses TCP protocol on port 5901.

Open TCP port 5901 for remote access
10. Now you can connect Redhat server from remote computer. On my Windows XP
computer, open VNC Viewer on Windows XP, type IP Address of Redhat server
with number as a username specify in step 6. In this example, I want to remote to


Redhat server as ‘admin’ user which I assign as number 1 in step 6 (1:admin) and
my Redhat server is 10.110.141.220. So I type ‘10.110.141.220:1'.
Note: You can download VNC Viewer for free at realvnc.com
Test connect to Redhat server from remote computer
11. Type your password for ‘admin’ user which has been assign in step 2.

Specify password
12. Now you have connect to Redhat server remotely. But you’ll see that the interface
looks different. You have to do a little thing more.

Remote screen
13. On Redhat server, open terminal and type ‘vi /home/username/.vnc/xstartup’. In
this example, I type ‘vi /home/admin/.vnc/xstartup’.
Note: If you going to enable remote access for user ‘root’, the file would be at
‘/root/.vnc/xstartup’.

Edit /home/admin/.vnc/xstartup
14. Uncomment these two lines and save the file.
Note: If you want to force to load Gnome or KDE Desktop on remote access, edit
the last line from ‘twm &’ to ’startx &’ for Gnome and ’startkde &’ for KDE Desktop.

Edit xstartup
15. Type ’service vncserver restart’ to apply changes.

Restart VNCServer service
16. Reconnect using VNC viewer on remote computer again. Now you will see the
desktop as you were log in at the server but now you’re remotely :).