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Start the VNC viewer on the client system in listening mode. When this message is displayed, the VNC viewer is ready and waiting for an incoming connection from the installation system. In the menu, edit boot options see The Boot Menu and append the following options to the end of the command line:. Start the installation. Once the initialization is finished, Anaconda will attempt to connect to the IP address and port you provided in the previous step.

Commands for using a VNC installation are also available in Kickstart installations. Using just the vnc command will set up an installation using Direct Mode. Options are available to set up an installation using Connect Mode. For more information about the vnc command and options used in Kickstart files, see Kickstart Syntax Reference. When installing headless systems, the only choices are an automated Kickstart installation or an interactive VNC installation using connect mode.

For more information about automated Kickstart installation, see Kickstart Syntax Reference. The general process for an interactive VNC installation is described below. Set up a PXE server that will be used to start the installation. However, when directed to boot the system, boot it from the PXE server.

Want to help? Learn how to contribute to Fedora Docs. Edit this Page. To install any of the viewers listed above, execute the following command as root :.

Direct Mode In this mode, Anaconda is configured to start the installation and wait for an incoming connection from VNC viewer before proceeding. Choosing a VNC Installation Mode Visual and Interactive access to the system If visual and interactive access to the system being installed is not available, then you should use Connect Mode.

Note the IP address and port number in the above example, Replace PORT with the port number you want to use for the connection. The terminal will display a message similar to the following example:.

The commands, packages, and files shown in this tutorial were tested on a minimal installation of CentOS 7. We would recommend the following:. Warning: You should not run any commands, queries, or configurations from this tutorial on a production Linux server. This could result in security issues and downtime. First, we will create two user accounts. Depending on how your server has been set up, when the machine starts up it may remain in the boot phase showing a message like this:.

To get past this, press 1 license read , then 2 accept licence , and then C to continue. You may have to press C two or more times. The image below shows this:. We have also created two user accounts for connecting through VNC. To check this, run the following command:. So why is it disabled? Each user connecting via VNC will have to start a new instance of the daemon or the system administrator can automate this.

CentOS 7 uses the systemd daemon to initiate other services. To test this, run the following commands:. So, the first step is to start two new instances of VNC server for our two users. Again, that comes back to the concept of individual VNC services. VNC by itself runs on port Since each user will run their own VNC server, each user will have to connect via a separate port.

The addition of a number in the file name tells VNC to run that service as a sub-port of Next edit the service unit file for each client. Now we need to go through the remaining steps. The comments also tell us that VNC is a non-trusted connection. We will talk about this later. Also, add the -geometry x clause at the end of the ExecStart parameter. This just tells VNC the screen size it should start in. You will modify two lines in total. Next, run the following commands to reload the systemd daemon and also to make sure VNC starts up for two users at boot time.

Next, we will need to configure the firewall to allow VNC traffic through ports and only. We are one step away from seeing VNC in action. In this step, the users will need to set their VNC passwords. Open another terminal connection to the CentOS 7 server, and this time log in as joevnc. As shown in the output below, the server will ask joevnc to set up a VNC password. Note the number after the server name: 1 , separated by a colon.

Next open a new terminal session and log in as janevnc. Here as well, start the VNC server and set a password for janevnc :. For this tutorial, we will assume users joevnc and janevnc are trying to connect to the CentOS 7 server from their Windows computers. They will each need a VNC client for Windows to log into the remote desktop.

This client is just like a terminal client like PuTTY, except it shows graphical output. We have also decided to let VNC Viewer choose the encryption method. This option will only encrypt the password sent across the network.

Any subsequent communication with the server will be unencrypted. The IP address is the same, and the port is :. When janevnc logs in via VNC Viewer, an empty desktop with a welcome message is shown, just like it was shown for joevnc.

In other words, the two users are not sharing the desktop instances. To close the remote desktop session, simply closing the window will do. If the service is not stopped or restarted and the machine had no reboots, the same desktop session would be presented at the next logon. Before starting, stop the VNC instance using the vncserver command with a -kill option and the server session ID as an argument. You can do it by creating new file xstartup inside. Save and close the file when you are finished.

The above script will be executed automatically whenever you start or restart the TigerVNC server. You can create it with the following command:. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Facebook Twitter Instagram.

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