Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 Desktop Administrator's Guide

How to Start VNC Manually

A user can start VNC manually. A VNC password is required.

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Caution  - A VNC password should be different from the user's UNIX login password. A VNC password is not securely encoded on disk or across the network.

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1. Become superuser or assume the root role.
2. Start the VNC server.

   # /usr/bin/vncserver

3. Enter the VNC server password.

   Password:
   	Verify:
   
   	New 'myhost:2 ()' desktop is myhost:2
   
   	Creating default startup script /home/user1/.vnc/xstartup
   	Starting applications specified in /home/user1/.vnc/xstartup
   	Log file is /home/user1/.vnc/myhost:2.log

4. From another machine, run the vncviewer command with the address reported by the vncserver command.

   # 
   
   vncviewer hostname:
   
   portnumber

   For example:

   # vncviewer myhost:2

5. Type the password you provided to the vncserver script.

   Verify that you see the login screen and can log in to a desktop session.