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  1. Setting up an VNC Server overview
    1. Setting up tigervnc-scraping
    2. Setting up lightdm to accept and act as a vnc server.
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ALA, Kali Linux

Setting up an VNC Server overview

At one time or another almost every system admin has had to setup a VNC server. Here is a brief and haphazard means to accomplish this. For this example we will setup a vncserver that initiated by systemd on a debian derivitive using tigervnc.

For information on how to setup the X-dummy driver for truly headless desktops, please see vnc-xdummy.

Setting up tigervnc-scraping

  1. Create a password using vncpassword as the user you intend to login as.
  2. Make sure the intended user is listed in the file /etc/tigervnc/vncserver.users.
  3. create a config file for vnc by editing/creating ~/.vnc/config with the following syntax.

This was the eventually resolution chosen for setup. As it worked effortlessly, and allowed for good screen resolution and performance.

session=i3
geometry=1920x1080
localhost
alwaysshared
  1. Configure X to load libvnc, by adding the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-vnc.conf:
Section "Module"
Load "vnc"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Option "UserPasswdVerifier" "VncAuth"
Option "PasswordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
EndSection

Setting up lightdm to accept and act as a vnc server.

  1. Install the tigervnc-standalone package
  2. Install lightdm and the lightdm-autologin-greeter package.
  3. Open the lightdm configuration file at /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
  4. At the bottom of the configuration file you will find the settings for lightdm to run as a vnc server.
  5. Simply uncomment each applicable setting, close the file, and restart the server.

Handling the Failed to create IPV6 VNC socket error

The full error output is: WARNING: Failed to create IPv6 VNC socket: Error binding to address 127.0.0.1:5900: Invalid argument

This error is specific to running lightdm and is a long standing bug. Lightdm appears to have fallen into disrepair and is no longer being maintained. Serveral distros have dropped support for it altogether. So, the best solution is to move onto something else.