Ubuntu VNC Server

[@davidbombal]

Menu: Overview: 0:00 VNC Installation: 1:19 Mac to Ubuntu Testing: 4:19 Windows to Ubuntu VNC: 5:01 Previous Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3rHd2qBaLOgotk Need help? Join my Discord: discord.com/invite/usKSyzb ================ Commands: ================ sudo apt update sudo apt install lightdm sudo reboot sudo apt install x11vnc sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/x11vnc.service !Copy and paste these commands - change the password [Unit] Description=x11vnc service After=display-manager.service network.target syslog.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -forever -display :0 -auth guess -passwd password ExecStop=/usr/bin/killall x11vnc Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target !Save file and run these commands: systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable x11vnc.service systemctl start x11vnc.service systemctl status x11vnc.service ================ Great website: ================ Website: bit.ly/2IOJUd8 ================ Connect with me: ================ Discord: discord.davidbombal.com Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal Facebook: facebook.com/davidbombal.co TikTok: tiktok.com/@davidbombal KZbin: kzbin.info ================ Support me: ================ Join thisisIT: bit.ly/thisisitccna Or, buy my CCNA course and support me: DavidBombal.com: CCNA ($10): bit.ly/yt999ccna Udemy CCNA Course: bit.ly/ccnafor10dollars GNS3 CCNA Course: CCNA ($10): bit.ly/gns3ccna10 ====================== Special Offers: ====================== Cisco Press: Up to 50% discount Save every day on Cisco Press learning products! Use discount code BOMBAL during checkout to save 35% on print books (plus free shipping in the U.S.), 45% on eBooks, and 50% on video courses and simulator software. Offer expires December 31, 2020. Shop now. Link: bit.ly/ciscopress50 ITPro.TV: itpro.tv/davidbombal 30% discount off all plans Code: DAVIDBOMBAL Boson software: 15% discount Link: bit.ly/boson15 Code: DBAF15P Please note that links listed may be affiliate links and provide me with a small percentage/kickback should you use them to purchase any of the items listed or recommended. Thank you for supporting me and this channel!

[@veredictum4503]

This is one of the best "how to" instructions on VNC / remote desktops. I cannot believe how many other videos there are, that show the VNC "client" install, then show connection, WITHOUT mentioning that the target / server machine needs to be configured!!!! Thanks so much!

[@Helleynea]

Thank you for the no frills instruction. Short intro,good explanation during the video,notes in description. Really, thanks.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you!

[@hyeonilcho6285]

What an insane tutorial!!!!! I had trouble installing VNC Server on Ubuntu Desktop. Many guides that I googled didn't work (Tight VNC, Tiger VNC and so on…) However, I finally made it with your way. Thanks!!!!!!!!

[@ocnah]

Same for me! I spent all sunday afternoon on trying to get this working, for me it was probably x11vnc as a service and the lightdm part that did the trick. 5 star tutorial!

[@parthagarwal]

This did it! Was stuck for days on getting realvnc and tightvnc to work with my Mac M1, but X11vnc as a service did the trick! Very simple and responsive, thanks for the tutorial!

[@CarlosBronze]

"And notice I'm controlling the Ubuntu computer from my WIndows laptop. I'm actually jumping from one computer to another; I'm controlling the Windows laptop from my Mac using VNC and then I'm using VNC on the Windows laptop to control the Ubuntu virtual machine (back on the Mac)." This is textbook "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Loved it!

[@TasManiatis-u7e]

Awesome video simple and easy to follow and it just worked. Also the fact that you also included the steps with all commands made it all that much easier. Love your work David.

[@EbaleyTheRogue]

Great stuff! I hadn't played with Linux, in earnest, for a few years, but I needed to throw up a server and then screen record a demo, on my Windows PC, in short order. Thanks to your vid I was able to get the VNC server up and running in a few minutes, take it over, and record everything. Much obliged! SUBSCRIBED.

[@davidbombal]

Glad it helped Dan!

[@matthewcb1970]

Thank you so much for this!

[@wizkidd06]

This worked like a charm. I struggle trying to get VNC server service going for hours searching google and trying different guides. Thank you sir!

[@frantsyzof]

Short and sweet, as always! Tks for you work😊

[@KevinPawlak-g8f]

Thank You David. These commands also work with Linux. I had a hard time finding the correct process. I now have it working with Guacamole. Thank you for adding the scripts in the notes, always makes it easier.

[@sthill12]

FINALLY got it working, thanks to your instructions! Thank you so much!

[@aaronboyd2464]

Thank you David for the detailed tutorial. Worked like a charm!

[@peterdijkman2556]

Thank you so much David. Chaging my life here

[@davidbombal]

You're welcome Peter

[@yadavramahemmady1059]

Superbly explained. Followed your steps and now I can connect successfully to my Ubuntu 23.04 PC from Windows 11 PC

[@Zenobia992]

i'd like to see OPENVPN server and client tutorial. Keep up the good work

[@davidbombal]

Great suggestion! Thank you.

[@denizsevinc9334]

Everything was very clean and well explained, congratulation, great job. Thank you very much David !

[@bido2050]

sudo apt update

[@bido2050]

$ sudo apt install anydesk

[@alexisel.6974]

respect super video )

[@charles5077]

just what I was looking for

[@davidbombal]

Glad to hear that!

[@chandlerbing7570]

Thank you for this. i went from not being able to VNC into my ubuntu PC to not being able to VNC into my ubuntu PC and not being able to SSH into my ubuntu PC forcing me to reinstall. So yes thank you so much for that

[@mridulranjan1069]

This has got to be one of the best videos ever. Why? No dramatic BS as most users do. No unwanted boasting of your own technical knowledge. To the point, precise, clear commands and description. Absolutely loved it. I hope people knew how to make tech videos like you did. Hats off!!! Great job buddy!!!

[@kayosud]

You are amazing David!!!!!! Thanks a lot for the step by step tutorial!

[@ibtissam4165]

As always ... so clear and so easy to understand ...The best 👏👏👏👏

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Ibti

[@arunsaha890]

Thank you @David for this tutorial. It worked for me. I have been looking for a VNC solution on Ubuntu for a while and this one is the first complete working solution that I found. Ideally, I was looking for a solution where the VNC session is not necessarily a mirror of the Ubuntu console (head), something where I can have multiple VNC (headless) sessions at :1, :2 etc. If you have any suggestions on that, that will be great too. Thank you again!

[@HitokiriKinchou]

out of like 15ish tutorials I found on youtube, this is the only one that worked. Have a like and thanks.

[@kosak46]

Thanks a lot! Earlier I have tried some manuals, I did all that was written thereb, but it was still not working. Now, I am enjoing of that what I've learnt from you😊

[@MarkFobert]

Warning: I was following this tutorial and when I started the lightdm service and tried to login to ubuntu afterwards, it wasn't letting me. You can resolve this by opening a terminal on the login screen (ctrl - alt - F3) and running the following commands: sudo service lightdm stop sudo service gdm start

[@That_G]

yes i ran into this problem too. don't know why he didn't cover this black screen

[@Pizzarous]

thank you!

[@SriniVaith]

Was able to enable vnc connection at last. Thanks. You also may have to disable firewall or create a rule to allow the vnc port

[@mhnav]

Works perfectly, thank you so much David, you're the best!

[@GeorgeWMays]

Excellent video. Very useful. You saved me a lot of time. It is appreciated. Thank you very much.

[@YQLF]

Easy and clear .. Respect ..

[@davidbombal]

Thanks 👍

[@alexstarciuc8832]

Very helpful video ,regards from Republic of Moldova )

[@yasserboudahdir6866]

you literally saved my graduations project thnks sir !!

[@AjvarRelish]

Loved this! Worked immediately! Do you have a guide for how to use vnc in "headless"? Im running an old mac mini with ubuntu as a home server, I currently have it hooked up to my tv, but i want to move it to a bookcase. I've googled a bit but haven't found anything that works.

[@engrkn]

Thanks David...nice tutorial

[@Mrmagnodsb]

Great video David. You're the best. Waiting for more videos about CCNP Encore

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Magno!

[@djawedbenslimane536]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@gunchag]

You saved me a lot of time! Thank you!

[@herreradimas]

Great tutorial, remember x11vnc is a mirror of host and this make more bandwidth over Ethernet wire or wifi so I will need your help David for use TigerVnc may be a few forums this more efficient . Thanks for your video.

[@enzrmedia79]

very very good tutorial... thank you very much.. from indonesia

[@godu1111]

What I love about linux is that everything is so simple ! Such a trivial operation takes just a dozen of text commands, editing a file, 2 reboots and bam, you`re done.

[@godfather7339]

It's just one time, also if you are complaining about this, pls leave tech, lazy dumb people like you will ruin everything.

[@DM-rc4yu]

lmao so true. I'm using Ubuntu for the last month or so and this is nowhere near ready for significant adoption on desktop. Not much has changed in a decade really.

[@schaskosrooney]

Nice, nice, nice! Thanks a lot! Best Regards from Brazil.

[@NanookFieryArcticSkyy]

Thank you I spent a few hours trying to get this working. The key for me was replacing gnome with the lightdm.

[@hiavi96]

David - great video - thank you. While this works great when a physical monitor is connected to the linux device, it doesn't seem to be working when is no screen connected to the linux device. Any suggestions?

[@wolframdanielh.4132]

Hi David, I can't get this make work. My Linux is a Zorin OS 16, (I guess based on latest Ubuntu). Error I receive: Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-12-12 09:57:15 CET; 3min 7s ago Process: 2779 ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -forever -display :0 -auth uVNCUser -passwd uVNCUser (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

[@alparslanmetehan9678]

Same problem

[@bmerfan]

Superb video, thank you.

[@Hasse-swe]

Thanks for the guide. A question. Can you add an followup video on how to add encryption.

[@Hasse-swe]

I used this goude and disconnected tha monitor to the computer and now i just get a black screen. Any tips that could help?

[@achhatkumargupta2954]

Yes sir you great love you 😍😍🔥🔥🔥🔥 love from India

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Achhat!

[@Cinderz88]

Awesome, thank you. Just scared the crap out my users on a display board using Ubuntu by taking remote command :)

[@jugglelulz]

Exactly what I needed!

[@kevinwong57]

Wonderful great works!

[@bhargavdasgupta6580]

Another great tutorial !

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Bhargav

[@ahmadqawariq7212]

Thank you that was very helpful.

[@erenmeric4891]

Thank you again for an educational video

[@davidbombal]

You're welcome Eren!

[@tuxsoftwares]

Your one of the best teachers ever ❤ I also understand u dad ❤

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Tariq

[@AndreasBodin]

Thank you for this tutorial David! Is the procedure the same for Kali Linux?

[@timhiggins4939]

Thanks so much I had been googling for what seems like years, this video did the trick. THANK YOU......

[@qweargs123]

Thank you for this tutorial! I got it working when a display is connected to my Linux machine, but not when it's running without a display. My vnc viewer just stays black then. Any idea how to solve this? I'm running ubuntu 22.04lts on a Fujitsu thinclient, where setting up a display is very tricky and not my preferred way. Still I don't wanna switch to ubuntu server as desktop is still way easier for me to handle Hope you can help me! :)

[@emirhangirenitlioglu3457]

did you solved that ? @qweargs123

[@emirhangirenitlioglu3457]

did you solved that ? @qweargs123

[@nitinchandna3016]

Many thanks for this video. It really helped me in a business project. I have a quick question, what if I don't want username/password prompt. What changes I should do to get a direct login?

[@CPurdiePlays]

Nice video! I'm curious what the equivalent command for the Restart=on-failure would be on Fedora? Having several machines were the x11vnc server fails on work machines. I can manually get it going again but it would be better to have it Restart on my own.

[@darylmorse]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. I tried to get the tightvnc vnc server working on ubuntu 22.10 with gnome, but was not successful. Have you tried it with gnome?

[@myrwon]

As many have mentioned...Great Video and to the point....plus still works on 22.04 & 22.10 but with an annoying issue (or it could be just me) - something so simple. copy & paste stops working.

[@РоманИванов-ъ8з]

Nice! Thank YOU!

[@3d-illusions]

will this work if there's no monitor connected to the ubuntu? Also, will the ubuntu use the gpu? I'm on 24.04 using the built in rdp, and the only way I can get the nvidia gpu to be used on the host is if I use remote sharing instead of remote login, but it will only work if I have a monitor connected.

[@macster1457]

Do you have a video on Apache Guacamole remote desktop? - It uses the browser to connect to devices. Seems pretty cool.

[@SinandLerd]

I can't get the keyboard to work correctly. I have a german keyboard at both ends. I have tried every combination of -xkb/noxkb -modtweak/nomodtweak. At vanilla "Alt Gr" doesn't work. With -noxkb it starts working but "Shift" stops working for most keys.... I don't understand the Man-Page to debug this any further.

[@niekschouten186]

Hi David, video works nicely. But when connecting from my windows pc I can't copy and paste to the ubuntu pc. Is there anything that I have to change for that?

[@oludayod7757]

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate you

[@davidbombal]

You're welcome Oludayo

[@fredzaphod9833]

Hey David, do you have any videos on SSH encryption for VNC? Options are bit scarce for some use cases, like VNC into linux pc from an iphone but it would be extremely useful to do if it were secure.

[@russfreelancer]

works great on ubuntu 23.04!! thanks a lot!

[@bonafontciel]

thanks for condensing the video in the notes above

[@viniciusuchoas8385]

Great video (Inception)

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! Agreed - how many levels can we go? :)

[@captainobvious7898]

Spent hours trying to get TigerVNC running per multiple web sites. None worked. Did this in 5 minutes and boom! working! The only issue I have is remote Ubuntu system has dual monitors, and when I VNC from the Mac using screensharing app, I get both screens beside each other fit onto my one local screen. How to configure it to only show the primary screen or even possibly have both those screens show up appropriately on my local computer, since it has dual monitors also?

[@seanseames3768]

I just wanna say I followed this and tried it on Ubuntu 22 and its works great. Only Issue I ran into was my screen was all red after changing the desktop environment, I had to add a the Standard Space -sRGB profile under settings->Color->(my monitor). Overall it works just great

[@lechsiz1642]

I have ssh on phone, and 2 PCs, but am still terrified of getting locked out - mainly by losing my key gen. Is VNC a good backup plan to get into my files to change them - in my scenario? Also, I hope to use micro terminal so I can cut and paste or drag and drop (not sure what is possible yet) and that may require VNC (GUI). This is for a Pi4 set up as a server for what I hope will be a small business website.

[@grantckerr]

Hi David. This video was really helpful. I successfully setup the remote access to a Raspberry Pi (Ubuntu 22.04) from a Windows 10 computer on my network. I have a monitor connected to the RPi as well in case needed via HDMI. However if I unplug the monitor HDMI cable (either from the monitor or from the RPi), this doesn't work. The VNC link is recognised from the computer and I can login via VNC to show the RPi login screen. After logging in on the RPi, the connect closes and there is a VNC error "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again." Logging out and retrying makes no difference. Any ideas why the unplugged HDMI cable prevents the remote access?

[@CooperateMind]

Thanks for the tutorial . Can this method being used to run an ubuntu machine headlessly? In other word does it start automatically during startup on linux side?

[@umrana5946]

You are a Legend )

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Umran!

[@nguyennhat364]

Hello, thank you for your video. I did successfully. I am curious that why with x11vnc on server, I do not need "ssh" to be as tunnel for tightvncviewer/tigervncviewer on client to login ?

[@ShopperPlug]

1:50 - Is it not possible to use the built-in "GDM" display manager? Why two display managers is needed? Thanks, this worked perfectly for Ubuntu Mate on Raspberry Pi 3B+, I did not install "lightDM" since it is already the distro's default desktop display manager.

[@trayjobe6995]

Im curious to as I like GDM better than lightdm

[@ibrahim_dec05]

such a nice one 👍

[@jbraatenii]

Thank you very much!!!

[@nagendrarao631]

for some reason it's not working for me

[@taifunov]

Thank you, it's very useful! But anyway, it's good idea to show how to setup secure connection with ssh also ;)

[@niveditha3825]

@David Bombal can you suggest which course we can take to pursue MS in networking or security field so we can have hands on theory practice knowledge?

[@catalinalb1722]

Great Video! I hope this will work with the Jetson Nano since it dosen´t have the vnc preinstalled as the raspberry pi dose!

[@hariscoralic858]

Sorry for dumb question but this is for all network or only LOCAL network ?

[@mrcrackerist]

Only have Linux machines at home and some windows vm's, so normally I prefer X11 forwarding over VNC. But one thing I am wondering is there no other way to store the password then in clear text? and also great video :)

[@thedangvu1374]

Thank you very much. it done in my PC

[@umairm8595]

Thank you David is VNC more secure or RDP?

[@Rudabaugh]

I'd love to know the answer too 👍

[@davidbombal]

It all depends on which VNC you use and how your configure it: RealVNC / SSH tunnels / tightVNC etc. The way I am doing it here is not very secure, but is a nice simple way to do it for labs. See this: security.berkeley.edu/education-awareness/best-practices-how-tos/system-application-security/securing-remote-desktop-rdp

[@ramonortega8200]

Con esto pude resolver mi problema en ubuntu 22.04 MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!!!

[@alparslanmetehan9678]

In addition to this, you need to install firewalld in the server then do this: sudo firewall-cmd --add-service vnc-server

[@AdmMusicc]

"SSH connection should be encrypted". Is there a way to be able to do this?

[@Praveen_Kammar]

Awesome u saved me today

[@rhodium4535]

Would love see a quick tutorial on how to make it a secure connection for use outside the LAN:-)

[@sadisticnepal9567]

I love you sir...!!! I am interested in IT from non-IT background. Your guide is immemorial to me..!!! Love u sir..!!!

[@workl6417]

For those who want to enable keys autorepeat, add ... _ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -repeat_ ..., in the video at 2:50, may help.

[@Fredruiz622]

Great video! How about Ubunto to Ubunto, its that posible?

[@datedatekyal3650]

Waiting for many Linux server tutorials