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Checking for an existing desktop

Always check if there is a VNC desktop running. The information about a running server and its display number is provided every time you log on. You should check that this corresponds to your configured tunnel:

Upon first login, and after a reboot of the server, your login screen will look like Figure 15, then you will want to start your VNC server as in Subsection 1.6.

Figure 15: VNC server is not running
Image fig-putty-login1

Otherwise you should output similar to Figure 16

Figure 16: A VNC desktop is running
Image fig-putty-login2



Lars Vilhuber 2007-11-13