Remote Desktop

[R S Gill]

Thanks Peter.

Does your solution solve the issue of the screen on the machine being
connected not being blanked?

Gill


On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 19:42 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:16:12 -0400
> R S Gill <rsgill at purdue.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I need a way to setup remote desktop such that when I access my server,
> > no one who is in the server room can watch what I am doing on the
> > server. Right now, anyone who has access to the server can view
> > everything that is going on when the server is accessed remotely.
> > 
> > And yes I am aware that VNC is slower and is not encrypted. I'll deal
> > with the slowness and I use an SSH tunnel the VNC connection to VNC.
> > 
> > I just need some help blanking the remote screen while the machine is
> > being connected to with VNC. And once the VNC session is ended, the
> > remote machine needs to have the screen lock activated.
> 
> You can set up a session on display :1 and use Xtightvnc.
> 
> For instance, 
> 
> 1)  Edit the file ~/.vnc/xstartup  Mine looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
> xsetroot -solid grey
> x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop"
> & ~/.xsession.vnc &
> 
> 2) Make a file ( ~/.xsession.vnc in the case above) that is like a
> ~/.xsession file , containing the things you want to start and the DE/
> Window manager. It could be as simple as
> 
> !#/bin/bash
> 
> fluxbox 
> 
> for example, although mine contains various bits that I like to start by
> default like gkrellm. These would just go above the window manager entry
> as usual , with an & after them, of course...
> 
> 3) Start vncserver from the server machine on display :1
> 
> vncserver :1
> 
> Now, that fluxbox session, or whatever session you configure, should just
> sit there waiting for you to connect, for instance using 
> 
> vncviewer <IP address :1 >  from a remote machine 
> 
> I configured this using the KDE krfb tool to set the server password etc,
> but no doubt it can be done by editing the relevant config file for the
> Xtightvnc server.
> 
> Even with fluxbox, which does not have its own session management, the
> apps you have opened will remain open and be there when you next connect.
> 
> Hope this helps, and all that...
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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