VNC server active before login (ubuntu)

[Corne Beerse]

Julien Dal Col wrote:
> hello everybody,
>
> I'm a complete newbie (1st time posting to a mailing list, beginer in the
> unix world, never heard of SSH or other things like that) and so I ask for
> your indulgence if I do something wrong or don't understand something...
>
> now that said, I need the help and advices of some people with skills in VNC
> servers configuration.
>
> 1st of all, who I am and what I want (and don't want) to do:
>
> - I want to setup a home server (mainly file server) and administrate it
> remotely
> - I chosed to install Ubuntu 8.10 on it (my choice is discutable according
> to many linux advanced users, but this is another topic)
> - I'm a complete beginer, and I would like to use as few terminal and manual
> editing of configuration files as possible
> - I installed webmin in order to administrate that server remotely (I can do
> almost everything I need this way)
> - I want to add a VNC server in order to be able to performe graphically
> some operations I can't do using webmin
>   
With that in mind, ubuntu is a reasonable choice. To use vnc on any 
unix/linux installation, best way to start is to see if vnc is somehow 
bundled with the system. For ubuntu: System -> Administration -> 
SynapcitcPackageManager. In there search for 'vnc'. This will show a 
list of vnc-related packages. Read the description carefully to see what 
you want.

For ubuntu, I'd advice to use one of the next:

    * `vino`, which provides a msWindows like vnc-session: The
      console-desktop is available in the vnc session.
    * `vnc4server`, which provides new sessions for every connection.

Others either are libaries, viewer-side applications, add-ons or have 
extended capabilities.

> Since I don't want to ever touch my server (that will be
> screen,mouse&keyboardless, stored in a cupboard), I need a VNC server that
> will be active before login.
>
> I checked this:
> http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html
> but there's many thing I don't understand so I don't know if it is even
> related to what I want to do...
>
> If any of you know how I can achieve my goal, I would ve very grateful for
> any help or link to find some.
> (since I'm really not an expert, please use simple words ;-) )
>
> if any of you knows a solution not involving VNC and believes that it would
> be more suitable for what I want to do, please let me also know about it.
>
> thank you very much in advance for the quality of your answers
>
> -J-
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