How do I edit the Remote Desktop Preferences via terminal?

[AndyNJ]

I'm trying to get VNC up and running, but I'm not near the physical machine (at the moment) so I only have SSH access at the moment.

I followed the instructions at http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/WebVNC, but I'm stuck at the "Turn on Desktop Sharing" section. Where are these settings so I can edit via the terminal?

EDIT: The server is not headless and a desktop session should be currently active right now.

[sag47]

When missiles and nukes fail, shoot a low orbit ion cannon at it... in other words blow it up with the find command.

Search all possible locations vnc could be.

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su cd / #search file names for vnc find / -type f 2> /dev/null | grep -i 'vnc' > ~/vnc_file_names #search contents of files for vnc find / -type f -print0 2> /dev/null | xargs -0 grep -iH 'vnc' 2> /dev/null | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u > ~/vnc_in_files

Search the contents of the two files ~/vnc_file_names and ~/vnc_in_files to see if you can find the location of a config file which contains a setting for enabling it. I know it's a very generic solution but for me this method resolves a lot of my problems.

SAM

[sag47]

Here's information on VNC server for Linux. Perhaps it could be related to WebVNC.

http://www.skullbox.net/vncserver.php