VNC for HP-UX

Downloading VNC

Download the VNC for HP-UX depot tarball. VNC Server and VNC Viewer are included as separate installable packages.

Note: VNC Viewer is freely available to download to as many other computers that you wish to exercise control from as you like.

If you wish to script installation of VNC Server and VNC Viewer together, download the VNC for HP-UX generic installer instead.

Installing VNC

At the command line

Installing VNC at the command line or via SSH is quick and convenient providing defaults are acceptable. To install VNC Server, run the following command as a user with administrative privileges, and perform the standard installation procedure: swinstall -s <absolute path to VNC Server>.depot

Note: This command fails with a relative path.

To install VNC Viewer, repeat this operation for <VNC Viewer>.depot.

Scripting installation

If you want to configure installation, run a script to specify programs and locations.

Licensing VNC Server

VNC Server must be licensed. If it is not, users cannot connect. More information…

Note: VNC Viewer does not require a license key.

Reinstating a valid VNC Enterprise Edition license key

To do this, copy a preserved licensekey file back to /etc/vnc.

At the command line

Obtain a license key, and then run the following command as a user with administrative privileges: /usr/local/bin/vnclicense -add <license key>

Additional steps

VNC is installed in /usr/local/bin. To configure paths for all users, and to provide access to the reference documentation, add the following to /etc/profile:

• PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/openwin/bin
• MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/man

Removing VNC

Run the following command as a user with administrative privileges: swremove realvnc-vnc-server realvnc-vnc-viewer

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Install software

#swinstall -s /tmp/vnc-4_1_1-parisc_hpux.depot

Run vncpasswd

$vncpasswd

Start font server (without it CDE will not be look properly)

#vi /etc/rc.config.d/xfs
RUN_X_FONT_SERVER=0
to
RUN_X_FONT_SERVER=1

# /sbin/init.d/xfs start

Start VNC Server

$vncserver :3 -query localhost -fp tcp/localhost:7000