Chapter 10. Remotely accessing the desktop as a single user (2024)

Prerequisites

• The GNOME Remote Desktop service is installed:

  # dnf install gnome-remote-desktop

Procedure

1. Configure a firewall rule to enable VNC access to the server:

   # firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=vnc-serversuccess

2. Reload firewall rules:

   # firewall-cmd --reloadsuccess

3. Open Settings in GNOME.

4. Navigate to the Sharing menu:

   

5. Click Screen Sharing.

   The screen sharing configuration opens:

   See Also

   What is GNOME Classic?

   

6. Click the switch button in the window header to enable screen sharing:

   

7. Select the Allow connections to control the screen check box.
8. Under Access Options, select the Require a password option.

9. Set a password in the Password field.

   Remote clients must enter this password when connecting to the desktop on the server.

   

Procedure

1. As the server user, set the encryption key of org.gnome.desktop.remote-desktop.vnc GSettings schema to ['none'].

   $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.remote-desktop.vnc encryption "['none']"

2. Optional: RedHat recommends that you tunnel the VNC connection over SSH to your VNC port. As a result, the SSH tunnel keeps the connection encrypted.

   For example:

   1. On the client, configure the port forwarding.

      # ssh -N -T -L 5901:server-ip-address:5901 user@server-ip-address

   2. Connect to the VNC session on the localhost:5901 address.