#TIGER VNC SERVER HOW TO#
In the next tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Gnome and what it looks like when connected with VNC. If you haven’t installed an X window system like Gnome, you’ll just get a blank screen: This will allow you to finally connect to the remote VNC server.
#TIGER VNC SERVER PASSWORD#
Since we’re just learning how to connect, it’s ok for now.Īnd finally, it’ll ask you for the password that you set when executing the “vncserver” command: This will give you a warning about an unencrypted connection. Now in the top box, type in the IP address or name of the server followed by the port number of the user you want to connect as and separated by a colon (:) Start up the program and go through the welcome screen. Mine is Windows, so I just download it using the link: Head over to and download the client for your operating system.
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Instead, it just shares an existing X server (typically, that one connected to the physical screen). Unlike Xvnc(1), it does not create a virtual display. We can finally connect! Step 6: Connecting to the Server via a Client x0tigervncserver is a TigerVNC Server which makes any X display remotely accessible via VNC, TigerVNC or compatible viewers. So now we have the port numbers and the password. You can verify this by looking at the log file created at /root/.vnc/Testing-out-NVC:1.log This means that the port number is 5900+ 1 = 5901 for this particular user. To install Tiger VNC on CentOS, simply type: In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to set up a VNC server on a CentOS/RHEL system and connect to it from a remote client. It stands for “Virtual Network Computing” and it uses the client server model. For that, we need a specialized program capable of performing this complex task. But doing the same thing when the server is running a GUI is a whole different ball game. Without a GUI, we can use programs like PuTTY to issue commands. If you want to run a GUI on a Linux server, you need a way to transmit the desktop to a remote client.
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Ease of use is one big factor, where you want to present a familiar interface to the user. And not just on client machines, but on servers. However, there are some use cases where you might want to use a GUI instead. We can do everything via the command line – and often faster. The idea is that running a GUI (or an “X” Window system to be specific) takes up a lot of resources that would be better used to improve the efficiency of the server instead. How to Install and Connect to a VNC Server on CentOS/RHEL Posted on September 11, 2017