This should print the host machine's hostname, e.g.

To get the host machine's hostname, on the host machine, run: $ hostname If you are connecting to the host machine over WAN, I'll assume you already know the public hostname or IP address. Note: This is assuming the client machine is on the same local network as the host machine. X11vnc should now be running, and it should start automatically whenever you log in locally. Enable and start the x11vnc service $ sudo systemctl enable x11vnc Save the file by typing Ctrl-O and exit nano by typing Ctrl-X. Open a new file in nano: $ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/rviceĮxecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -auth guess -forever -loop -noxdamage -repeat -rfbport 5900 -shared -o /var/log/x11vnc.log In Terminal (or over SSH): $ sudo apt install x11vnc -yĬreate systemd service (so x11vnc runs automatically) If you haven't set up SSH, in order to do so in the very most basic way with default settings, run each of the following commands in Terminal: $ sudo apt install openssh-server -y This keeps things simple and also more secure. Note: These instructions do not include steps for VNC authentication or allowing VNC through the firewall because it assumes you will use an SSH tunnel.

You will need to set up OpenSSH if you haven't done so already.

These instructions are adapted from, among other things, this tutorial, which worked for me. We are going to use the command line in order to keep things as simple as possible. Because you're here, I'm assuming you're not using one of them, so x11vnc it is. There are other VNC servers you can use that among other things may have commercial support. It has tons and tons of options that we're just not going to use. x11vnc is conveniently available from elementary OS's apt repositories (which for elementary OS Odin are Canonical's repositories for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa). We are going to use x11vnc, which is a fairly simple, fairly generic VNC server. The other results on the elementary OS StackExchange are fairly old (or vague), so I'm just going to go ahead and put extremely basic (but detailed) instructions here despite the fact that you didn't directly ask for them. Note: I found this as a web search result for setting up a VNC server on elementary OS. It would be a good project for a Settings panel at some point, though. Note: Most likely this is not a deliberate rejection of the functionality so much as the fact that elementary OS exclusively uses its own GUI applications built from scratch in Vala, and building a GUI frontend for setting up a VNC server is just a relatively low priority. No, elementary OS does not come with a GUI frontend for setting up a VNC server. To answer your actual asks: Does elementary os come with any native VNC server?

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