Remote connection by VNC in CentOS 7

For computer vision programming, if we want to see the figures and videos directly, we need to remote connect to server by VNC.

VNC installation

For Cent OS, we use yum to install dependencies,

yum install tigervnc-server

Then use command vncserver to start a VNC server, when first start, you need to give some configurations such as passwords. After that, when next time, you can start a server by

# vncserver

New 'GPU32:2 (root)' desktop is GPU32:2

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/GPU32:2.log

After start, you can see the listening ports:

...
tcp6       0      0 :::5901                 :::*                    LISTEN      18278/Xvnc          
tcp6       0      0 :::5902                 :::*                    LISTEN      11274/Xvnc          
tcp6       0      0 :::6001                 :::*                    LISTEN      18278/Xvnc          
tcp6       0      0 :::6002                 :::*                    LISTEN      11274/Xvnc          
...

Firewall configuration

The default firewall of Cent OS 7 is firewall-cmd, not iptables.

The follows are some common used commands.
Open the ports for vnc.

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=5801/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=5901/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=6001/tcp --permanent

Make it works.

firewall-cmd --reload

firewall-cmd --list-all

Finish

Now, you can start a connection with a vnc-client from other machines.