Just remember to specify the port TCP 5901 (if you've followed our guide). Now that everything has been setup properly, we can try to connect to our VNC service using a VNC client such as TightVNC, UltraVNC, RealVNC and so on and see what happens. The first thing to do is to install the tigervnc-server software package by opening a terminal session and issuing the following command with root privileges: Now that we know what are we talking about, let's see how we can setup and configure TigerVNC under our CentOS environment. That's why we're chosing TigerVNC, which works exactly like that by starting parallel sessions of the machine desktop environment ( Gnome, KDE or other GUI) on the connecting client VNC desktop: this basically means that a standalone virtual desktop will be created for each separate connection - which is precisely what we want. The software was originally developed by the Olivetti & Oracle Research Labin Cambridge, UK as an open-source initiative and its source code is still available, as of today, under the GNU General Public License.ĭepending on the VNC server software, the client will connect to the currently active runtime desktop (such as some "modern" softwares like Teamviewer or AnyDesk) or to a stand-alone virtual desktop, just like the Windows Remote Desktop RDP protocol: the latter behaviour is arguably more powerful and secure, especially if we need to control a server machine, because each session will be a unique environment configured with the permissions and grants of the connected user. The acronym VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing and is a server-client protocol that allows a client machine (running a VNC client) to connect to and control a remote computer (powered by a VNC server). More specifically, we'll do that using the tigervnc-server software, a free tool that allows to do just that.īefore proceeding, let's briefly recap what VNC is about. In this post we'll see how to setup and configure a VNC Server on a Linux CentOS 7.x server machine to allow remote connections from any VNC client - such as TightVNC, RealVNC and the likes.
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