I'm trying to set up a VNC server as per the directions in the following guide: http://help.godaddy.com/article/6012?locale=en#access
Some background:
The first problem I ran into was that there was no ~/.vnc/xstartup
file. I solved that issue by running the vncstartup
as per these instructions:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9708808&postcount=8
The next problem I ran into was that I could no longer start or stop the service with /sbin/service vncserver start
. I was receiving the error:
Starting VNC server: 2:username [FAILED]
The solution that I found was that I was supposed to run vncstartup :2
while logged in as username
. This is the link with that info:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/applications/125293-vnc-server-failed-start.html
I've now logged into username
and attempted to run vncserver :2
but it is giving me this error:
vncserver: Could not create /var/www/.vnc.
I had created username
as a web admin account that I originally set up to log in with FTP - thus the /var/www
directory.
Finally, the question(s) - should I be creating an account specifically for VNC separate from the FTP log in account? If so, what directory or settings should this user have so that I can run vncserver :2
and finally log in?