- You can change the port (default is 5900), by setting the keys use_alternative_port and alternative_port;
- You can reject connections from the network and allow only those from localhost (useful for who wish to exclusively use a tunneling mechanism to access the server, such as ssh), by setting the key local_only;
Keys mentioned above are located at /desktop/gnome/remote_access tree in gconf (You can use gconf-editor program)
We are in a discussion about to include or not these options in configuration applet (vino-preferences). If you have any opinion about this, let us know by commenting on bug 361891.
Thanks for the tip!
Now, if only vino could initiate outgoing connections, I could use it instead of x11vnc for my little reverse VNC gui Gitso.
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Thanks. I was looking for it for a long time. It’s very useful for me.
The keys dont seem to make any difference on Gutsy (I restarted the system just to be sure). I set both keys but vino is still listening on 5900 (and not on the alternate port).
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if you’re having problems keep in mind the port range is limited between 5000-50000
Definitely a plus to be able to change the listening port. I use it for security when setting up port forward on my router.
if you set the port negative, can you allow it to listen on ports less than 5000?
Just to mention this, the full path in ubuntu 10.4 is /home/USERNAME/.gconf/desktop/gnome/remote_access
one just needs to open gconf-editor through a command line terminal and then navigate to the configuration one wants to change
i think its worth mentioning you need to kill the vino-server process and restart it. I thought enable/disable would have done that.
also it might be worthwhile to see how you can have vino server start w/o logging in. Here’s what a quick google search returned http://jakeyoon.com/2008/11/19/enable-vino-vnc-server-for-login-manager-gdm-in-ubuntu/