On 21/08/10 20:29, Tim wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2010 15:51:13 Daniel Spain wrote:
>>> OK not so much problems but more of how do I do it
>>>
>>> I have just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server onto a new server, it boots
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>> to
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>>> CLI, I then sudo"user" startx to get a gui interface (yes I know gui and
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>> server
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>>> are not everybody cup of tea but for me it is).
>>>
>>> But as the server won't be next to me I need to access it remotely, now
>>> if
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>> the
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>>> server is up and running (and X is running) I can run TightVNC and access
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>> the
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>>> server. But if the server goes down (reboot or powercut, I can get
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>> somebody
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>>> to
>>> push the button on the front on the server to start it for me), I can
>>> then
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>> ssh
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>>> into the server and login as me, but if I try to startX from ssh it won't
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>> I
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>>> think it is trying to run X just to the ssh client I have open and not
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>> start X
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>>> globally on the server. How can I start X globally on the server from an
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>> ssh
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>>> session?
>>>
>>> Tim
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>> DISPLAY=:0.0 sudo "user" startx?
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>> I may be wrong though....I know that works for launching graphical apps via
>> an ssh session, but may not be correct for startx itself.
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>> You could always just have the server start it automatically on boot.
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>> Dan.
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> OK the command that works is
>
> DISPLAY=:0.0 sudo startx
>
> So running SSH and logging in as me (a user) and then running the above command
> starts X on the server, A minor problem is closing the SSH window on the remote
> PC shutsdown X on the server. I then have to open a second SSH window to start
> the vnc server (although I could do that before I start X or put it in a script
> to start on bootup at a later date).
You do realise that you don't actually need X running locally on the
server to use VNC? And that you can forward a VNC connection over ssh,
with a command similar to this:
vncviewer -via user@remoteserver localhost:1
(might not be :1, depends on your configuration. In fact on ubuntu might
not even be vncviewer :) )
I'm not an ubuntu person, so I can't tell you precisely how to configure
or start vnc on that, but it really should be possible to run as a
normal system service, listening only on localhost.
On a Red Hat-like system you can install the vnc-server package and just
configure the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file, then
vncpasswd
(as the appropriate user
and
service vncserver (or /etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver) start
I'd assume that similar processes would work on an ubuntu box.
google comes up with some of the following...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=189555
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=191564&highlight=vnc+gnome
http://theseekersquill.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/vnc-server-ubuntu-windows/
http://www.ehow.com/how_5089245_install-vnc-server-ubuntu.html
Regards,
Stuart
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