X11VNC Server on Ubuntu

X11vnc packages are available under default repositories, So just update default repositories and install.

$ sudo apt-get update  $ sudo apt-get install x11vnc  

Create Password

Now create a password to connect using vnc viewer from client system.

$ x11vnc -storepasswd    Enter VNC password: *********  Verify password: *********    Write password to /home/rahul/.vnc/passwd?  [y]/n y  Password written to: /home/rahul/.vnc/passwd  

$ X11vnc -usepw

Start X11VNC Server

After successful installation of x11vnc server on your system. Let's start it using following command. Change the parameters as per your setup.

$ sudo x11vnc -auth guess -forever -loop -noxdamage -repeat -rfbauth /home/rahul/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5900 -shared  

Setup AutoStart on Boot

Finally setup the auto start of x11vnc server on system boot. Create a x11vnc.conf file under /etc/init/ directory using following content.

$ sudo vi /etc/init/x11vnc.conf  

# description "Start x11vnc on system boot"    description "x11vnc"    start on runlevel [2345]  stop on runlevel [^2345]    console log    respawn  respawn limit 20 5    exec /usr/bin/x11vnc -auth guess -forever -loop -noxdamage -repeat -rfbauth /ho

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