On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:38 +0000, Jason_Meers wrote:
> Christoph Maser wrote:
>
> >>
> > Actually the default logins (text mode and gdm) both show the hostname.
> > Don't tell me you leave logged in sessions.
> >
>
> No not normally, only on a few specific machines on the LAN that are
> only accessible from another machine on the LAN.
>
> 1) Not all backup software has usable command line tools, so sometimes
> you have to connect the a GUI on a logged in session.
>
> 2) If you look at the way remote desktop(vino-server) and vnc work it is
> impossible to remote control the session if the machine is not already
> logged in (the session doesn't exist). Some dirty workarounds do exist
> i.e the machine uses gnome session, but vnc uses a kde session to avoid
> various conflicts.
>
> I reported this to the vino developers in august last year:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352349
>
> --snip--
> Is it possible in any current or future releases of vino to connect to
> the machine while it is sat at the login screen?
If you use the vnc server built into X.org you have access even without
a logged-in session and I find performance better than using Vino.
I just recently set it up on a CentOS 4.4 workstation so I know it works
with X.org in that version at least.
The following page gives info on how to do it...
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_VNC_to_connect_to_existing_X_Sessions
The important section is the following...
File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Module"
Load "vnc"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Section "Screen"
#This tells X where to locate the VNC password file
Option "PasswordFile" "/home/your_user_name/.vnc/passwd"
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules/extensions"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
Save your changes and close your editor. You will have to restart X (no
need to reboot, just log out (end session in KDE), and hit
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE when the login window comes back up, then login).
You also need to create your passwd file that you specified above.
Code: ~/.vnc/passwd file
$ mkdir ~/.vnc
$ vncpasswd ~/.vnc/passwd
Password:
Verify:
Regards,
Paul
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