Open up a VNC viewer from Windows machine and enter a remote desktop address. systemctl start it on system startup as root. Log file is /home/raj/.vnc/:1.log Enable VNC Server Starting applications specified in /home/raj/.vnc/xstartup New 'localhost.localdomain:1 (raj)' desktop is :1Ĭreating default startup script /home/raj/.vnc/xstartup Xauth: file /home/raj/.Xauthority does not exist You will require a password to access your desktops. firewall-cmd -permanent -add-port=5905/tcp The following rule is set as per the port-offset mentioned in the previous step. ĮxecStart=/sbin/runuser -l raj -c "/usr/bin/vncserver %i"Īdd firewall rules to allow the VNC connection. Replace with your real user, in my case, i replaced with a user called raj. # Clean any existing files in /tmp/.X11-unix environmentĮxecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'ĮxecStart=/sbin/runuser -l -c "/usr/bin/vncserver %i"ĮxecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :' vi the end of the file, you will find the lines like below. You can connect the VNC server by specifying ipaddress:sub-port ( 192.168.2.109:5 or 192.168.2.109:5905) cp /lib/systemd/system/ the copied file. While copying, you can mention which port it should listen.īy default VNC server listens on 5900, but if you setup port-offset for VNC we can run a service on a sub-port of the default port 5900.įor example, if we mention port 5, the desktop will be accessible on 5905. yum install -y tigervnc-server xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 Configure VNC ServerĬopy the VNC server configuration file to /etc/systemd/system/ for configuring the system service. So, you can install the tigervnc server and X11 fonts packages using the YUM command. VNC server package is available on base operating system repository. How to connect to and from Windows 7 and Linux using TightVNC For cross-platform remote administration between Windows and Linux, Jack Wallen shows you how to set up TightVNC for connecting both ways. READ: Install Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 Install VNC Server Prerequisitesīefore installing the VNC server, you would need install Gnome desktop using YUM command. You need to setup the vnc server manually. VNC server and client are not installed, by default. The following simple guide helps you to setup the VNC server on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 machines, VNC help to share the desktop with the other machines which have a client installed.
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