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- Due to timeouts associated with things like afs tokens, kerberos tickets, vpn, and ssh tunnelling, vncserver sessions left running can become inaccessible to VNC Viewers, and will to be restarted. Troubleshooting section below has some possibilities for getting around the problem, but they are not always successful. In any case, please do not leave unsaved work in your session.
- The iris group of SCCS machines are equipped with fonts necessary for running edm displays like lclshome. Other machines like noric or yakut do not have these fonts.
Set up your PC (one time)
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- Download and install the VNC for Windows Viewer client software executable from here: http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html; (make a shortcut on your desktop)
- Download and install putty, if you don't have it already. Once If you install and run vpn, you can get putty from the SLAC xweb: https://xweb.slac.stanford.edu
Configure your vncserver (one time)
- vpn into the SLAC network, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/NetMan/How+to+Connect+to+SLAC+VPN
- Using putty (or XWin-32 if you prefer) log into iris01.slac.stanford.edu, providing your unix username and password
- Create your vnc password:
- > vncpasswd
Provide a password following the usual SLAC password guidelines.
The password will be stored in ~/.vnc/passwd
To reset the password, you can run vncpasswd again.
- > vncpasswd
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Every time you need a new session.
- Create a connection to SLAC using vpn (see vpn link above)
- Invoke a command window on your PC:
- click the Start Button in the lower lefthand corner of your screen
- enter Command in the search box
- select "Command line tools" from the list
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contacts:
- Judy Rock (x3639)
- Mike Zelazny (x3673)
- Jingchen Zhou (x4661)
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