Remotely Accessing Your Desktop

Introduction
VNC is a multi-platform tool for viewing another computer's screen remotely. It is an open protocol, and is avaialble on Windows, OS X, Linux, and other platforms.

Typically on Linux/UNIX, a VNC server creates its own session independant of your active X11 session. There is also x11vnc, which allows you to remotely access your active X11 session.
NOTE: You do not need both x11vnc and vnc, one or the other will suffice, though you can use both if you choose. Your system can run as many VNC sessions as you like.

Procedure For Installing x11vnc

1. Download the RPM here.
   
2. Install it (for the other, yum takes care of this):
   rpm -ivh x11vnc-0.7-1.0.au1.92.ydl.1.ppc.rpm
3. Run the x11vnc server: x11vnc
   (You can run it password protected by adding the --passwd <password> flags)
   Note: x11vnc is not available as a service, you must run it manually.

Procedure For Installing a separate VNC server

1. Run yum install vnc
2. Run vncpasswd to set a password
3. Optionally, run /sbin/chkconfig vncserver on to set the VNC server to be on at startup

Procedure For Installing the VNC Viewer on Yellow Dog

Run yum install vnc-viewer

Connect to the server by running: vncviewer <server's IP or address>

This howto was written by AJ Hawks, ahawks@terrasoftsolutions.com