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Configure VNC

Configure VNC - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Desktops and Remote Access (2016)

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Configure VNC

- [Narrator] Now that we have vnc installed, let's configure it. Go up to your applications menu, click on favorites, and click on terminal. I'm going to resize my terminal and bump the font. I'm going to make a copy of the example configuration file provided by Centos and give it a unique name. We'll use the cp command and elevate our privileges with sudo. Sudo cp slash usr slash lib slash system d slash system slash vnc server at dot service. This is the source file, and we're going to copy it to slash e t c, slash system d, slash system, slash vnc server, dash your user name. So in my case I'd put g r a n t at dot service. Hit enter, type in your password, and hit enter again. The first argument is the example configuration file provided by Centos. The second argument is the file we're copying it to. Notice we've changed the name from vnc server at dot service to vnc server dash grant at dot service. The reason we're naming our configuration file is that we need a separate…

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