Remote Access missing in openSuSE 11?

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Hi,

i have installed the RC1 of openSuSE 11.

Up to the version 10.3 under YAST (Hardware - Graphics Card and montior - Remote Access) I could enable the vnc remote access.

In the new version this is missing:confused:. Where can I activate this in the new version?

Thx for your help

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mirko2324 wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> i have installed the RC1 of openSuSE 11.
>
> Up to the version 10.3 under YAST (Hardware - Graphics Card and montior
> - Remote Access) I could enable the vnc remote access.
>
> In the new version this is missing:confused:. Where can I activate this
> in the new version?
>
> Thx for your help
>
>
yast2 -> network services -> remote admin (vnc)

you should try the yast2 search

Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 3.5.9, Gnome 2.20, Opera 9.x weekly

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This is not what I want. :frowning:

For example I to start an application on the remote computer. When I close the connection (vnc window) the program should still run on the remote computer. Later I will check if the program is finished with his work.

I need a connection to the console of the remote computer as if I sit in front of it.

4

There is an option in the Control Center called Remote Desktop. This lets you set to, on a per user base, allow others to connect to your active desktop. Works quite nicely.

Cheers,
Wj

5

Thanks for your answer.

I can’t find an option called “Remote Desktop”. Under “Network Services” I found the “Remote Administration (VNC)” option, but that’s not what I’m looking for.

6

Well,

You can do the same thing sax2 used to do, but do it the hard way - edit, as root, the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file; make a backup first!!!:

In Section “ServerLayout”, you must have the following:

    InputDevice    "Keyboard[2]" "ExtraKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse[3]" "ExtraPointer"
    Option         "VNC" "3 2"

(note the [2] and [3] might be need to be changed if they already exist.)

In Section “Module”, you must have:

    Load           "vnc"

You must have these entire sections added (alter the Keyboard[2] and Mouse [3] to match above.):

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard[2]"
    Driver         "rfbkeyb"
    Option         "InputFashion" "VNC"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse[3]"
    Driver         "rfbmouse"
    Option         "InputFashion" "VNC"
EndSection

And have this added to Section “Screen”:

    Option         "usevnc" "yes"
    Option         "rfbauth" "/root/.vnc/passwd"

Then, as root, you must set your VNC password by typing in a shell:

vncpasswd

If you don’t want a password, then remove this line you just added to the xorg.conf:

Option         "rfbauth" "/root/.vnc/passwd"

Lastly, you must restart the X server for the changes to take place. Oh yeah, make sure you have port 5900 open in your firewall.

I hope this is what you wanted,
g

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Many thanks for this. For others benefit I’ll relate my problem which you’ve solved

I installed 11.0 over 10.3 on 2 AMD64s and everything went smoothly. Using vnc to get :0 was as 10.3.

However I then installed 11.0 on a new fileserver (dualcore Atom ITX - very impressed ) and couldn’t get access to :0 although vnc access to :1 :2 :3 was fine.

Your instructions worked fine.