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.
- Not all backup software has usable command line tools, so sometimes
you have to connect the a GUI on a logged in session.
- 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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Paul