Now you have to to establish a secure shell tunnel via the 59xx port.

The default startup mode will be Gnome or KDE.

They needn't be the CERN password, but it's preferable to have a strong one.

If you haven't used vncpasswdand iff the vnc server connection is being made for the first time, you'll be prompted to set up your VNC password and VNC view only password.

Note that resolution above 1920pixelsx1080pixelsmay not be supported.

Make sure it's not higher than the resolution of your local computer because you won't be able to view in a higher resolution anyway.

-geometry argument stands for the resolution.

The CERN server will automatically set up a number if this number ff is not available.

do vncserver :ff -localhost -name Lxplus-Session -geometry 1920x1080 where ff=.

Now fire up a VNC server on the remote machine.

Type in vncpasswd into the remote shell to set VNC password.

To set up a screen session on the remote node, type screen into the shell.

It's of the form Then set up a screen session to keep stuff running in the background without having to kill the tasks that you're going to perform

The server node is also displayed on the prompt.

Note the server node running by doing uname -a.

When it prompts for a password enter the CERN NICE password.

To learn more about ssh arguments, visit:.On Red Hat based systems (or open source variants) replace apt by yum or dnf or rpm or zypper as the case may be.On Debian based Linux systems do: sudo apt install note the spaces between angular brackets.They may be with different names in your Linux package distribution repositories. On your local linux computer/VM fire up your favourite shell.On Linux To set up a VNC server connection, do the following: STEP 1

Reset vnc password