#Tigervnc fedora how to#
I've spent a couple hours today messing with various things but haven't gotten any closer to figuring out how to get TigerVNC to answer when XRDP comes a knocking. With the RHEL 6 version of TigerVNC all of the xrdp and tigervnc files could be left bone stock and "just work". I've started looking into this but I think the underlying problem is that TigerVNC as-deployed simply cannot be a useful tool for general access to terminal services via xrdp, because we can't be in the business of maintaining a separate systemd unit file for each of 700+ different users (even if that would work). See 'systemctl status and 'journalctl -xn' for details.įailed to issue method call: Access denied $systemctl start to issue method call: Unit name is not valid. So I gave your code a shot, both with no display number specified, then iterated over all the possible displays - all to no avail: Hi Stephen, thanks very much for the reply! Is there any chance that someone less dim than I could please get TigerVNC and XRDP playing nicely on RHEL 7 and doc it so that I can regain feature parity with Windows? despite guidance that the :# portion of the unit file isn't needed** Which isn't even recognized by systemD as valid $systemctl start to issue method call: Unit name is not valid.
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# Clean any existing files in /tmp/.X11-unix environmentĮxecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'ĮxecStart=/sbin/runuser -l tigervnc -c "/usr/bin/vncserver %i"ĮxecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :' I tried creating a service account 'tigervnc' for the systemD unit file and that didn't get me where I was hoping - here's my unit file for reference: $cat desktop service (VNC) I've checked the latest guidance in the system administrators guide for TigerVNC and it's all oriented toward the most user-unfriendly implementation only* - having individual systemD unit files for each named user etc etc. The underlying problem is that I can't seem to get tigervnc-server to "just work", so xrdp-sesman can't connect the login session to a tigervnc session.
#Tigervnc fedora install#
XRDP is luckily heading to EPEL 7 proper (from testing) within a few days it looks like (), but when I install that and tigervnc-server on my EL7 timeshare nothing but sadness and woe ensues. Now that we are chucking our RHEL 6 timeshares I've started looking into the state of XRDP and TigerVNC on RHEL 7 and I am sad. This was before systemD and I remember it being mildly annoying to set up but once it was put into place we achieved something resembling feature parity with Microsoft Windows wrt RDP capability.
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A couple years back I set up an XRDP server on one of our RHEL 6 timeshare hosts for general desktop use by a few Windows users who wanted a RHEL GUI desktop on rare occasions.