expected. All hardware components were detected correctly. The correct 

modules for the integrated video and audio chipset were loaded successfully. 

The network card driver was loaded, and the network was activated successfully 

at the end of the installation. The system successfully received a DHCP lease 

from the DHCP server in the ITSO network. Name resolution worked as well, 

without any extra configuration steps.

Setting up remote administrative access using VNC

Once the installation completed, we chose to immediately modify our client setup 

to provide remote terminal access to it from other workstations on the network 

using VNC. This way we could complete any additional administration tasks to 

complete the install remotely.

To begin this process we first check that the ssh daemon is running and that 

connections via VNC will get a complete desktop. One way to enable this for the 

root user is to modify the file xstartup in $HOME/.vnc , as shown in Example 6 1.

Example 6 1   Enabling VNC connections

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

unset SESSION_MANAGER

exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

.....

Also, you have to enable Xdmcp in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, and set up a session 

in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers.

After starting by executing the command 

'service vncserver start'

, you can 

connect with any vnc client and work on the complete graphical interface.

Important:

 This can be dangerous, as it enables connecting to the local X 

server from any place. If it is needed, editing /etc/hosts.allow or 

/etc/hosts.deny can allow you to limit who can access the workstation.

Preparing to integrate with Windows network services

The next step in our migration is to connect the client to the existing networking 

services. In our existing environment we will be integrating with Windows 

NT/2000 servers, so we will follow the instructions in Chapter 7,  Integration 

how tos  on page 133.

Our first goal is the ability to use the services of the existing Windows domain, 

primarily user authentication. In order to be able to log onto the Linux client using 

Windows user names and passwords, it is necessary to set up winbind.

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