VNC is short for ‘Virtual Network Computing’. It’s a simple method for sharing a graphical desktop environment. For example, if you install VNC on your hosted server, you could connect to its graphical desktop environment remotely.
Pre-Flight Check
- These instructions are intended for configuring a TightVNC VNC Server to Use an SSH Tunnel on a single Ubuntu 14.04 LTS node.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, and I’ll be logged in as a non-root user, but with sudo access. For information on giving a user sudo access visit our page on How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on Ubuntu 14.04.
- If you don’t already have a desktop environment installed on your server, than you can follow our tutorial on: How to Install the Xfce Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. If you don’t already have a TightVNC VNC Server then you can follow our tutorial on: How to Install VNC Server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
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