Questions about VNC behavior in 10.04.1 LTS (upgrading/replacement of firewall/server system)

[Colin Law]

On 22 January 2011 20:29, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was having problems upgrading my old system from 08.04 LTS (remember)...
>
> I purchased a new system and have Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS installed and up to
> date. I have also added some additional packages that are required to
> support my environment. Everything seemed to function correctly until I
> tried to use VNC.
>
> If a monitor is plugged into the system I am able to reach the new system
> from one of my other machines. This is good. However, if I disconnect the
> monitor I am unable to make a connection! The BIOS is set to ignore keyboard
> errors, because the system will be HEADLESS in it's final configuration. So
> the presence or absence of mouse and keyboard have no effect, just the
> monitor.
>
> How do I enable a VNC connection without the monitor attached?

I don't know about vino but I run x11vnc as the vnc server on a
headless system without problems.  I connect over ssh so it is fully
secure.

Colin