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Configure VNC Server On CentOS 7

This document provides instructions for configuring a VNC server on CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 to allow remote desktop sharing. It describes installing the tigervnc-server package and xorg fonts, copying and editing the systemd service file to configure the port, adding firewall rules, starting the vncserver service, and connecting to the remote desktop via the configured IP address and port.

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Configure VNC Server On CentOS 7

This document provides instructions for configuring a VNC server on CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 to allow remote desktop sharing. It describes installing the tigervnc-server package and xorg fonts, copying and editing the systemd service file to configure the port, adding firewall rules, starting the vncserver service, and connecting to the remote desktop via the configured IP address and port.

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Configure VNC Server on CentOS 7 / RHEL

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RAJ JULY 25, 2014 28 COMMENTS CENTSO 7, REMOTE, REMOTE DESKTOP, RHEL 7, VNC

VNC Server on CentOS 7

The following simple guide helps you to setup the VNC server on RHEL 7/CentOS
7 machines, VNC help to share the desktop with the other machines which have a client
installed. VNC server and client are not installed by default, you need to setup the vnc
server manually.
Before installing the VNC server, let us install Gnome desktop.
[root@server ~]# yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" "Graphical Administration Tools"

Install the tigervnc server and X11 fonts.


[root@server ~]# yum install tigervnc-server xorg-x11-fonts-Type1

Copy the VNC server configuration file to /etc/systemd/system/ for configuring the system
service. While copying, you can mention which port it should listen. By default VNC server
listens on 5900, but if you setup port-offset for VNC; we can run a service on a sub-port of
the default port 5900. For example, if we mention port 5, it will be accessible on 5905. You
can connect the VNC server by specifying ipaddress:sub-port (192.168.2.109:5 or
192.168.2.109:5905)
[root@server ~]# cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service
/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:5.service

Edit the copied file.


[root@server ~]# vi /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:5.service

At the end of the file, you will find the lines like below.
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
# Clean any existing files in /tmp/.X11-unix environment
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l <USER> -c "/usr/bin/vncserver %i"
PIDFile=/home/<USER>/.vnc/%H%i.pid
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace <USER> with your real user, in my case, i replaced with a user called raj .
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
# Clean any existing files in /tmp/.X11-unix environment
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l raj -c "/usr/bin/vncserver %i"
PIDFile=/home/raj/.vnc/%H%i.pid
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Add firewall rules to allow the VNC connection, the following rule is set as per the port-offset
mentioned in the previous step.
[root@server ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=5905/tcp
[root@server ~]# firewall-cmd --reload

Start VNC server after switching to raj.


[raj@server ~]$ vncserver

Set the password.


You will require a password to access your desktops.
Password:
Verify:
xauth: file /home/raj/.Xauthority does not exist
New 'localhost.localdomain:1 (raj)' desktop is server.itzgeek.com:1
Creating default startup script /home/raj/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /home/raj/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/raj/.vnc/server.itzgeek.com:1.log

Reload the systemctl daemon as root


systemctl daemon-reload

Start the VNC service as root.


systemctl start vncserver@:5.service

Enable it on system startup as root.


systemctl enable vncserver@:5.service

Take remote desktop.


ipaddress:5905 or ipaddress:5

CentOS 7 VNC Connection


You will be asked to enter the password, enter the password that you have created earlier.

CentOS 7 VNC Authentication


Now you will get the vnc desktop session.

CentOS 7 VNC Desktop


Thats all you have successfully configured VNC server on CentOS/RHEL 7.

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