Configuring VNC Server and client for the Remote Session
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@scottalanmiller Ok.Whether can I take the XP machine in remote at Linux machine.If it is posssible?
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller Ok.Whether can I take the XP machine in remote at Linux machine.If it is posssible?
This is very confusing. Let's work on the terms before going any further. It is common now to use "remote" as a verb (this actually comes from India, I think, India tends to promote noun to verb movements in English ahead of the native English speaking countries). So let's do that. "Take" doesn't mean anything in this context and is leaving us without knowing what you mean.
Do you want to remote from Windows XP (the client) to Ubuntu (the server?)
Do you want to remote from Ubuntu (client) to Windows XP (server?)
Do you want to do something else?
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@scottalanmiller Sorry.Dont get angry.I want to take remote of Ubuntu machine at Windows XP machine and I need to access the ubuntu machine at Windows XP.How to do it??
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller Sorry.Dont get angry.I want to take remote of Ubuntu machine at Windows XP machine and I need to access the ubuntu machine at Windows XP.How to do it??
You should not use "take" or "at" in a description of remoting. Use "remoting" and "from" to be more clear. Or to eliminate all ambiguity, specify which is a client and which is a server.
It appears to mean that you want to use Windows XP as the VNC client and Ubuntu as the VNC server.
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If my assertion is true, you should not be looking at Windows XP in any way yet because you said that you had not yet gotten VNC installed on Ubuntu. Is this not true? It is unclear what your current status is as you have started talking about Windows XP before getting the Ubuntu issue fixed.
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@scottalanmiller
I have already attached the screenshot of my ubuntu machine.My ubuntu machine is VNC server and the XP machine is VNC client.Since ubuntu shows me that VNC is installed but it is not even opening.Whether configuration is to be done for VNC server at Ubuntu.If it needs to be done.How? -
@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller
I have already attached the screenshot of my ubuntu machine.My ubuntu machine is VNC server and the XP machine is VNC client.Since ubuntu shows me that VNC is installed but it is not even opening.Whether configuration is to be done for VNC server at Ubuntu.If it needs to be done.How?But you did not have it working yet. I can't even figure out what you are trying to do with logging in as a user named server and setting its home directory to something that does not exist. I'm very confused by what you are attempting to do.
But I really don't understand why you are looking at Windows, the client, if you have not gotten the server running yet. You have the cart before the horse, we can't talk Windows until it has something to look at.
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Have you looked at the Ubuntu VNC instructions yet?
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Have you tested your Ubuntu server to see if your VNC server is listening?
Try using netstat -tulpn to see what connections are open and listening.
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@Reid-Cooper I have tried it in ubuntu and it seems to be listening.Whether can I upload the screenshot for this?
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A screenshot is fine.
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@Reid-Cooper
This is screenshot of the netstat -tulpn -
Port 5900 is the standard for VNC. Looks like the server is already running. Have you verified that the firewall is open?
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@Reid-Cooper Firewall is disabled now
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@thanksajdotcom Now I have configured and remote from xp is done.After taking the tick option from the dconfig software and now it is working.Thank you friends for your support
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@Lakshmana said:
@Reid-Cooper Firewall is disabled now
Okay, that makes things easy. So now, from the VNC client on Windows XP, what is happening? You should only need to put in the IP address of the Ubuntu server there.
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@Lakshmana said:
@thanksajdotcom Now I have configured and remote from xp is done.After taking the tick option from the dconfig software and now it is working.Thank you friends for your support
Oh okay, there we go
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@Lakshmana said:
@Reid-Cooper Firewall is disabled now
Why not just allow port 5900 through?
Now that you know that things are working, you should turn the firewall on and only allow port 5900.
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@Reid-Cooper OK I have disabled my firewall and gave only the IP address for the system to be in remote
