You’ll need gnome desktop environment – if it is not installed on your system you can get it installed using yum; the commands are:

root# yum groupinstall "X Window System"
root# yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

If you get any errors about dependencies, I am sure you know how to get those packages installed.

Now, the VNC server is installed with the X Windows system. We will configure the VNC server now:

Edit the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file with your favourite editor and uncomment the following two lines:

VNCSERVERS="5:root" # display port and username
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800×600 -nolisten tcp -nohttpd -localhost"

Set password to VNC Server

root# vncpasswd

Edit the local config file in the root folder:

nano ~/.vnc/xstartup
Replace "twm &"   with "gnome-session &"

To start VNC server issue command

root# vncserver :5

To stop VNC server issue command

root# vncserver -kill :5

Connecting with VNC client

Start VNC Server by issuing the command

root# vncserver :5

Open your favourite VNC client and type your server’s IP followed by the port number

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5 (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP)

5 is the port set within the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file

Enter your servers password and access the linux remote desktop.

Here is your remote desktop

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