VNC onto cloud VM

[danyboyj]

Hi

I've created a test VM to try to get VNC working, but not having much luck

I've followed the forum post here : http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f15/co...er-linux-6355/ as well as lot of other guides on the Internet.

I have vncserver installed - and it is running on :1

I've tried several VNC clients, but none seem to connect - I was wondering, maybe there is a firewall rule blocking the incomming connection - but I have no iptables


Any ideas?

[ejsolutions]

For me, the obvious question is:
If you're using Linux (clever person), then why bother at all with VNC/Putty? In the years of running VPS's, all I use is a terminal and ssh, supplemented by cPanel/WHM.
I also just use terminal/ssh to my local RAID NAS.

[danyboyj]

Long story - but I need to configure firefox / manage addons

Once done I'll rarely VNC onto it

[ejsolutions]

A simple "ssh root@ipaddress" would suffice?

[danyboyj]

Firefox doesn't expose (m)any commands to remote control it over CLI

[ejsolutions]

Totally flummoxed by why anyone would want to run a ssh from within a browser (secure-->insecure, for only one reason) but this might help:
HowTo: Remote Access Ubuntu using Firefox - Ubuntu Forums

[danyboyj]

As I said long story - that is not what I want to do.

I want to setup a headless website screenshotting service.

- job comes in
- firefox goes to URL
- takes screenshot
- crops + saves PNG


But I need to install an addon onto firefox and have to VNC onto the machine

[AlexP]

Hello Danny,

Please try to use IPADDRESSS:1 in VNC client I hope it will work.

I had tried to access it from here, it iwants me to enter the password.

[danyboyj]

Please try to use IPADDRESSS:1 in VNC client

:1 is the internal port - the external port is 5901 - which is not open

[danyboyj]

If anyone wants to reply to this feel free, however, I managed to get Firefox configured how I needed using the prefs.js file. So this isn't important to me anymore.

[mountainman]

Yes, fire fox does not expose any commands to remote control it over CLI