I am trying to setup a centos 7.1 vncserver
I cannot believe they went from a relatively easy process in 6 to the "crazyness" that is 7.
I did the following: yum install tigervnc-server cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service /etc/systemd/system systemctl daemon-reload edit /etc/systemd.system/vncserver@.service and replace <USER> with myuser su - myuser run vncpassword to set password systemctl enable vncserver@.
Says its enabled: systemctl list-unit-files | grep vnc vncserver@.service enabled
using another machine to connect gives error about nothing there.
netstat -tuln | grep 5900 gives nothing.
What did I miss?
Thanks,
Jerry
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:46:56PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
I am trying to setup a centos 7.1 vncserver
I cannot believe they went from a relatively easy process in 6 to the "crazyness" that is 7.
I did the following: yum install tigervnc-server cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service /etc/systemd/system systemctl daemon-reload edit /etc/systemd.system/vncserver@.service and replace <USER> with myuser su - myuser run vncpassword to set password systemctl enable vncserver@.
Says its enabled: systemctl list-unit-files | grep vnc vncserver@.service enabled
using another machine to connect gives error about nothing there.
netstat -tuln | grep 5900 gives nothing.
What did I miss?
Is the port opened in the firewall?
Is the port opened in the firewall?
I stopped firewalld with "systemctl stop firewalld"
Jerry
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I am trying to setup a centos 7.1 vncserver
I cannot believe they went from a relatively easy process in 6 to the "crazyness" that is 7.
I did the following: yum install tigervnc-server cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service /etc/systemd/system systemctl daemon-reload edit /etc/systemd.system/vncserver@.service and replace <USER> with myuser su - myuser run vncpassword to set password systemctl enable vncserver@.
Says its enabled: systemctl list-unit-files | grep vnc vncserver@.service enabled
using another machine to connect gives error about nothing there.
netstat -tuln | grep 5900 gives nothing.
What did I miss?
Thanks,
Jerry
On 04/03/2015 12:11 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
Is the port opened in the firewall?
I stopped firewalld with "systemctl stop firewalld"
Jerry
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
I am trying to setup a centos 7.1 vncserver
I cannot believe they went from a relatively easy process in 6 to the "crazyness" that is 7.
I did the following: yum install tigervnc-server cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service /etc/systemd/system systemctl daemon-reload edit /etc/systemd.system/vncserver@.service and replace <USER> with myuser su - myuser run vncpassword to set password systemctl enable vncserver@.
Says its enabled: systemctl list-unit-files | grep vnc vncserver@.service enabled
using another machine to connect gives error about nothing there.
netstat -tuln | grep 5900 gives nothing.
What did I miss?
Thanks,
Jerry
You should:
cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:#.service
Where # is the vnc port 590# to open. Like /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:4.service to start a vncserver on port 5904.
Then use `systemctl start vncserver@:4' to start that VNC server. Remember to edit the /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:4.service file's <USER> as you did before.
Emmett
You should:
cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver at .service http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:#.service
Where # is the vnc port 590# to open. Like /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:4.service to start a vncserver on port 5904.
Then use `systemctl start vncserver@:4' to start that VNC server. Remember to edit the /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:4.service file's <USER> as you did before.
Emmett
OK - I redid and used the name vncserver@:0.service
Still not work -
I then used 4 as in your example and it worked.
How do I get port 5900 ?
Thanks,
jerry
On 04/03/2015 01:39 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
You should:
cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver at .service http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:#.service
Where # is the vnc port 590# to open. Like /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:4.service to start a vncserver on port 5904.
Then use `systemctl start vncserver@:4' to start that VNC server. Remember to edit the /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:4.service file's <USER> as you did before.
Emmett
OK - I redid and used the name vncserver@:0.service
Still not work -
I then used 4 as in your example and it worked.
How do I get port 5900 ?
Thanks,
jerry
Not sure why the didn't work. I've never used 0. You could add -rfbport 5900 to the vncserver parameters, or explicitly set the display value by replacing any %1 in the .service file with the display number preceded by a colon. e.g., ':0'.
Note that if you are hosting any kvm VMs, a running vm might be grabbing the 5900 port. Which could explain why the :0 file name didn't work.
Emmett
On 04/03/2015 08:46 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
I am trying to setup a centos 7.1 vncserver
I did the following: yum install tigervnc-server cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service
I guess the problem is, that you don't provide the instance name (the part after the @), the vncserver server need this to configure the local X- display.
See the Quick HowTo line in the service unit file
regards Ulf
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