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− | Ok here is one for the Monitorily challenged let’s assume you have followed the ssh blind setup and have your connection to your beloved RaspberryPi | + | Ok here is one for the Monitorily challenged let’s assume you have followed the ssh blind setup and have your putty connection to your beloved RaspberryPi |
You have run raspi-config and maximized the available space on your SD card. | You have run raspi-config and maximized the available space on your SD card. | ||
− | How would you like to see the startx screen | + | How would you like to see the startx screen |
==Well here we go.== | ==Well here we go.== |
Revision as of 12:46, 20 July 2012
Contents
Running a VNC Server on a RaspberryPI
Ok here is one for the Monitorily challenged let’s assume you have followed the ssh blind setup and have your putty connection to your beloved RaspberryPi
You have run raspi-config and maximized the available space on your SD card.
How would you like to see the startx screen
Well here we go.
Login to your RPi with putty
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vnc-server vncserver
follow the instructions to add a server password confirm the password say no to the view only option
Close your putty window but leave your RPi running if you reboot shutdown or restart your RPi you will need to re-run vncserver from the command line as it's not added automatically to the start up script.
NOTE: If you use sudo su or sudo bash or one of the other commands to change to a root login to install vnc-server you need to get back to a pi login before you run vncserver to set the password it goes through the motions if your logged in as root but if you look at the response root is debarred from this action.
Setting up the PC
Now you need to get some software for your PC use your browser and visit
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php/
Download the tight VNC Java viewer
(Here I am assuming you have Java loaded as an option on your PC if not go to java.com and get it if you want use this method)
You can wait till you try the application and get Java if it does not play.
Unzip the download and run “tightvnc-jviewer.jar” if you have Java installed you will open a window that looks like this
Type your IP address for your RaspberryPi into the Server Box
Edit the port to read 5901
Click connect and enjoy
Noob overview and explanation
Putty login if you don’t understand this go look at the Blind ssh login wiki page
Obviously if you have a monitor attached you can do all of this stuff from a command line without using putty.
You should have a note of you DHCP assigned address or hava a fixed IP address assigned you will need this later.
sudo apt-get update | |
sudo | sudo is the instruction to run the following command as the super user. |
apt-get | is the tool to get packages to install |
update | just makes sure you have the latest settings for apt-get |
sudo apt-get install vnc-server | |
sudo | sudo is the instruction to run the following command as the super user. |
apt-get | is the tool to get packages to install |
install | tells the apt-get programm it's going to install what follows |
vnc-server | the vnc server the thing you are installing |
vncserver
This is the command to kick the server ito life but it realises that it's not been run before for this user so it prompts you for a password which you then have to confirm.
Note the omitted - hyphen you use vnc-server to install vncserver to run.
It then asks you if you want a password set for view only not a lot of point to this on the RPi maybe later with multiple logins but for now just decline the offer.
PC stuff
Note under Vista and Windows7 you will have issues with run as administrator your on your own there I'm a old XP hound.