VNC startup

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hi Mark

If youre willing to drop to the console, then it's very easy to 
administer a remote box using ssh ("secure shell"). You need to install 
the openssh-server package on the box, then use the ssh command to log 
into it across the network.

Mark Yarbrough wrote:

> I am very unfamiliar with VNC on Linux, so please forgive my ignorance...
> Is there a way to make VNC launch on startup so that I get the login 
> screen, and everything that is going on for a particular display?  For 
> example My Ubuntu machine is typically inaccessible, and there is 
> nobody logged into it.  I need to control my box from login to logout 
> remotely.  All I have seen is to get VNC working after a login 
> session.  If anyone could point me in the right direction or help 
> out... I would greatly appreciate it.
>  
> Mark