Seting up mandrake as file servers to W2K PCs

[ac_dispatcher]

Now that I think of it, Try going into the KDE control center "kcontrol". Somewhere in there I remember desktop sharing. try looking in there.

 

Sorry I have not had VNC running on my MDK bok for some time. I run tight VNC on all my home windows box's.

[MottS]

The machine will boot no problem without mouse/monitor/keyboard. My server don't have any of these and it boots #1.

 

Now for VNC. You first have to install it. At the command line, become root and install tight-vnc as follow

su

[enter password]

urpmi tightvnc-server

Now tell your system to start the vncserver when it boots. Adjust the runlevel to yours (probably 3 since you don't have any screen .. hehe). But mine is 5 so here we go.

chkconfig --level 5 vncserver on

Now adjust the file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers according to your need. Mine look like (my user is "gd") this. Read the beginning of the file to understand what is file is all about.

VNCSERVERS="1:gd"

Finally, as your user (me "gd") enter a vnc password with the command

vncpasswd

With all this, the vncserver should start a vnc session for your user everytime the system boot to runlever X (X being your runlevel).

 

Now, you can access the vncserver from any win2k machine. You can download the viewer for win32 machine freely here:

 

http://www.realvnc.com/dist/vnc-3.3.7-x86_...in32_viewer.exe

 

Connect to the vncserver with the IP + ":1" at the end. Like that:

 

192.168.x.y:1

 

Tell me if you want more details ..

 

MOttS