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RealVNC is a commercial company that sell VNC license for the enterprise market. However, the company allow home user to setup VNC server for personal use. The limitation is that you are only allow 5 connection. User must register an ID with the company. The configuration of your VNC will be stored on the company's server. Since RealVNC is professionally produce, it is much better compare to the open source product in Linux. The main advantage is easy configuration although there are steps to install and start the server especially on Linux platform. We do not need to worry about ip address and port number. What the server and client required is our RealVNC ID which we have created. Unlike the default Vino server that comes with Ubuntu, RealVNC will start without user login. The system is created with security in mind. Encryption is done transparently without any intervention from user. We will be showing a simple guide on how to install and Configure RealVNC Connect (serv...

To share screen from Ubuntu Workstation securely, we need to configure the pre-installed VNC server Vino and then we also need to install ssh server if we have not already done so.  Server side configuration are as follows: Configure Vino server Install and configure ssh server  We have 2 methods of launching VNC client. They are as follows: Method 1 Established ssh connection over VNC port Launch VNC client over ssh tunnel Method 2 Using a VNC client that can perform both at the same time. Server Side Configuration Configure Vino Server Please refer to this post. Simple Screen Sharing with Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Install and Configure SSH Server Please refer to this post Install and Configure SSH Server on Linux Client Side Connection Method 1A: Launching VNC from Linux/Mac OS X Established SSH Tunnel from Client At this point we assume that we have installed and tested the ssh server. To established secure ssh tun...

Ubuntu already has a VNC server Vino  pre-installed. So no additional VNC server installation is required. Configuring VNC Server To share screen from Ubuntu, we need to perform a few steps: To share screen go to Settings > Sharing Turn ON the OFF button on the top right corner Click on Screen Sharing . Turn ON the OFF button on the top left corner and set a password. Resulting screen is as follows: Once it is completed. We need additional command line to configure so that it works. Apparently, the default encryption does not work well will any VNC client. To get VNC to accept incoming connection, open a terminal and execute the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false Once this setting is done, we have one more step to do before we are good to go.  We need to enable auto-login so that screen sharing can work. Go to Settings > Details > Users On the top right corner, click Unlock and enter your...