There is absolutely a way to do this - I use to do so to my workstation from home... And of course I cannot find the docs anywhere! Not sure this will help: http://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/documentation/5.0/misc/reference/vncserver-x11-serviced.html On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > On 01/22/2013 02:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/22/2013 03:52 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system is via gdm/kdm. Yes, I know about vino, and /etc/sysconfig/vncservers but what I'm looking for is a sertup >>> that allows me to see the *dm login screen instead of being dropped direct into a desktop. >> Depending on what you are really trying to accomplish, freenx/nx might >> be what you need (and on centos-6, the OpenNX client): >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX > yep, > > I'm aware of freenx... and it drops you directly into a desktop. Not acceptable for this situation. I'm *really* trying to be dropped into a *dm (gdm/kdm) screen to log into the > system > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare