Subject: Re: VNC Server
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 09:39:14 MDT
If telnet is run from inetd or xinetd then it is only active when there are
telnet clients - no need to worry about any startup scripts.
Iain
on 10/8/01 4:00 pm, Brian Watson at bcwatso1@uiuc.edu wrote:
> Thank you for the advice. Also, how can I shutdown telnet/start it
> up while the computer is already running? I found that starting up
> ssh is similar to httpd, but I can't find telnet.
>
> --Brian
>
>> Brian Watson wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have KDE, Gnome, or the X window system installed. Are the X
>>> window components necessary in order to run VNC? I just want to be
>>> able to connect and have full control over a system w/ VNC. Telnet
>>> doesn't allow access to some of the system commands, whereas VNC is
>>> like you're actually at the terminal.
>>
>> If you want access to the graphical commands, you need to run an X
>> server somewhere to view them. The best way to do this is run an X
>> server on your local machine - the program will run on the remote
>> system, and the display will appear on your local desktop among all your
>> other windows.
>>
>> If you don't have an X server on your local machine (like XFree86 for
>> unix, or Exceed, or any of the others) then you will have to set up an
>> Xwindows environment on your server, and use VNC to remote control it on
>> your desktop. This is not a very good way of doing things, as your
>> server is running a whole graphical environment, and this environment
>> can only be accessed by one person at a time.
>>
>> Another important tip - ditch telnet and install secure shell instead
>> (SSH). In fact it should already be installed on your server - you just
>> need a client to access it. SSH protects the connections with encryption
>> and strong authentication, whereas telnet shouts everything across the
>> network including your root password and other private information in
>> the clear.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Graham
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