Fedora 23 KDE Desktop sharing

[Rick Stevens]

On 02/10/2016 12:30 PM, Gary Baribault wrote:
> You are a champ!!! Worked first time. Thanks and thanks to the community!

Glad to help!

> On 10/02/16 03:02 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 02/10/2016 11:07 AM, Gary Baribault wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>>       I've been running Fedore for years, and it used to be I could just
>>> walk the menus and share my desktop. That doesn't seem to work any more.
>>> I've googled until my fingers bled... I can get VNCServer up and running
>>> but when I access it from another machine I get a desktop but it's a new
>>> desktop. I want to access the existing desktop from another computer...
>>>
>>> I know, it's dangerous, but my FW to the internet is a CentOS box with
>>> SSH and to get to my desktop you need to ssh to my FW with proper
>>> credentials, and forward a tunnel to my desktop and then log in there as
>>> well, so I'm comfortable with the security.
>>>
>>> So, how do I set it up to share the existing desktop?
>>
>> You need to a) make sure you've installed the "tigervnc-server-module"
>> RPM (which provides the /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so
>> module); and b) add the "vnc" module to X.
>>
>> To do the latter, I have a file:
>>
>>      /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-vnc.conf
>>
>> that contains this content:
>>
>>      # This file was manually created by Rick Stevens
>>      Section "Module"
>>          Load "vnc"
>>      EndSection
>>
>>      Section "Screen"
>>          Identifier "Screen0"
>>          Device "Videocard0"
>>          Option "SecurityTypes" "VncAuth"
>>          Option "UserPasswdVerifier" "VncAuth"
>>          Option "passwordfile" "/path/to/your/vncpasswd/file"
>>      EndSection
>>
>> Obviously, replace "/path/to/your/vncpasswd/file" with the appropriate
>> stuff (the double quotes MUST be there) and you'll need to create
>> that password file and password using
>>
>>      vncpasswd /path/to/your/vncpasswd/file
>>
>> Then reboot and you SHOULD be able to just "vncviewer remotehostname",
>> enter the password you used for the "vncpasswd" command and the main
>> main desktop should appear (assuming your firewall permits incoming
>> connections for that port, typically TCP port 5900).
>>
>> You can also tunnel the remote VNC session via ssh:
>>
>>      vncviewer --via user at hostname hostname
>>
>> You'd need to put in the ssh password first, then the VNC password.
>> I do this to access my desktop at home (my firewall only permits
>> incoming ssh sessions from my office IP or my internal home network).
>>
>> Alternately, you can use something like TeamViewer. It's up to you.
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