[Nottingham] Booting Headless

[Chris Dawson]

Roger thanks

The proposed scenario is based on 'how I do it now'
The idea is just to put the PC in a remote part of the building and still
have access to it through the GUI. I tend to use this machine as a test
machine to help me learn more about Linux but I'm running out of floor space
:-)

Thanks.

 Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Roger Light
Sent: 18 August 2005 20:47
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Booting Headless

Hi Chris,

> I've setup a PC running Fedora 4 and I'm using VNC to access the 
> desktop locally. However, I now want to move the machine into a remote 
> part of the property without a keyboard or monitor. I'd like to be 
> able to vnc in to Gnome and access the machine completely remotely.
> 
> I'd like to boot it headless but I can't seem to find a way to avoid 
> logging on with username and PW.

I'm not entirely sure I'm getting all of what you're saying so I may have
missed something. Having said that, I do the same thing with one of my
machines. I start the machine and then log in via ssh and start my vnc
session. This doesn't avoid logging on in its entirety, but there is no need
for a keyboard/mouse as long as your network settings are correct and ssh
starts.

Is that any good?

Roger

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