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In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.

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Screen sharing stopped working Mac OSX 10.7.4

Yesterday, after installing Myob Account Edge accounting on my mac mini server, I lost the ability to screen share with it using the vnc protocol (Go menu > connect to server). When I try to connect, the screensharingd daemon starts on the server (I…
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How to access vm inside a vm via VNC?

For some reasons I installed virtual machines inside a virtual machine, like this: A( B( C )) where A is the physical machine, B is a vm and the network type is NAT. And C is also a virtual machine and the network type is bridged. The OSes are…
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VNC into EC2 Ubuntu Instance

I followed the guide here, and I seem to be able to connect but I get a blank screen using the Chicken VNC viewer. Why?
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Cisco VPN and split tunneling

I have a linux box with one NIC and Cisco VPN client installed. The problem is I want to use VNC while connected to the VPN, but the cisco router doesn't support split-tunneling and LAN access is disabled. I'm thinking of two solutions, but need…
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Can't create VM with virt-install on Debian wheezy

Cant find any answers anywhere so here goes. I am trying to CREATE a new virtual machine using the virt-install command from a console on a Debian wheezy install. I keep getting the following output: Starting install... ERROR internal error…
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tunneling VNC port and port forwording

I have two machine say A and B. machine A is a public gateway. machine B is in my network and running VNC server on port 6000. I want people should connect on machine A on VNC port say 5900 (unsecured). after this the machine A should setup a tunnel…
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How to stop Java web app on server remotely

I remotely ran a Java web application on a server using TightVNC. One of the tasks of the web app was that it would schedule and do a specific task every 15 minutes. Turns out the code is incorrect and produces a SQL Exception: Invalid column index…
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Sun Grid Engine VNC temporary sessions

Since I've been in a world of hurt with FreeNX attempting to get shadowing to work, I stumbled across a brief description describing starting vnc sessions through an SGE job (our firewall rules would require ssh tunneling, so I'm not too concerned…
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xorg.conf missing in Debian

I'm attempting to configure X on a headless server. I've installed the xorg, tightvnc, and fluxbox but /etc/X11/xorg.conf is missing. I've run xorg -configure and it gives fails giving the following error: No devices to configure. Configuration…
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RHEL6: allow remote X clients

Two hosts, both running RHEL6.2. One (hostA) has a X installed, the other (hostB) does not. Installing X on the second host is not an option. Runnning 'echo $DISPLAY' on hostA returns ':10.0'. On hostA, I've: - xhost + On hostB, I've: - export…
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Restarting the GUI on a Linux Sever to free locked files?

Recently, I realized that a certain disk partition on a Linux Server that is only accessed by ssh was full. I tracked down the problem to a VNC log which had filled up the disk. Using lsof, I determined that even though the log was deleted and VNC…
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Remote login ticketing for single-license software on shared server.

in my university context we use some expensive software for which we have a single-license on a single machine. Having to share a single license in this manner is suboptimal: users need to go sit down at the foreign desk, hopefully didn't forget…
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CentOS port closed even when iptables is stopped

I've recently got a VPS running CentOS 6.X, I installed Gnome and configured VNC. vncserver is running fine, but I can't connect to it. I checked the ports from outside and noticed that port 5901 is closed. I edited the iptables and restarted the…
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VNC server failed to start CentOS

I followed a tutorial on how to install and get VNCserver to run on CentOS 6 (since freenx isnt supported yet) and I keep getting Starting VNC server: 1:user [FAILED] How do I figure out whats going on here? Im new to Linux/CentOS and im trying…
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Installing VNC or equivalent service on Ubuntu 10.4 minimal via SSH

I recently purchased a quite expensive Rootserver. The only way to connect to it is via SSH. That works perfectly fine and I'm happy with it. But sadly, my boss wants a GUI. SO my first thought was: VNC. I literally tried everything. I did over 50…
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