Launching VNC
If you installed VNC via Fink, you can start the VNC server by issuing the following command:
vncserver
You will need to enter a password, which you supply when you connect from a remote machine. (This password can be changed using the command vncpasswd.) You can run several servers; each server is identified by its hostname with a :number appended. For example, suppose you start the VNC server twice on a machine named abbott; the first server will be identified as abbott:1 and the second as abbott:2. You will need to supply this identifier when you connect from a client machine.
By default, the VNC server runs twm . So, when you connect, you will see an X11 desktop instead of the Mac OS X desktop. (You can specify a different window manager in ~/.vnc/xstartup.) To terminate the VNC server, use the following command syntax:
vncserver -kill :displayFor example, to terminate abbott:1, you would issue the following command while logged into abott as the user who started the VNC server:
vncserver -kill :1.
Tip
There is a derivative of VNC, called TightVNC, which is optimized for bandwidth conservations. It can also be installed with Fink. TightVNC also offers automatic ssh tunneling on Unix and backward compatibility with the standard VNC.