Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Desktop Administrator's Guide

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

How to Set Up VNC to Provide a Guest Graphical Login

  1. Become superuser or assume the root role.
  2. Enable XDMCP connections by editing the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file.
    [xdmcp]
    	Enable=true
  3. Restart the GDM service.
    # svcadm restart gdm

    Note - Restarting the GDM service terminates all corresponding GDM sessions.
  4. Enable the Xvnc inetd service.
    # inetadm -e xvnc-inetd
  5. Connect from another machine and verify that you see the login screen and can log in to a desktop session.
    # vncviewer hostname:port number
    hostname

    Name of the host where you ran the service.

    port number

    Denotes the port number on the host to connect.

    For example:

    # vncviewer myhost:2