Today I had to install Ubuntu in a Virtual Box on one of our servers. Accessing the Ubuntu desktop via the remote desktop connection was rather slow, so I decided to enable the remote desktop on VNC. I enabled it without any problem. They make it really easy. The issue I had was the default port 5900 was not opened in the company firewall. I did have another port available so I went to change it. All the documentation I found said there should be an advanced tab but there wasn’t. Finally after some Google searching I found this link:
The brief summary is: You open up the gconf-editor and set an alternative port, check the checkbox that says “use alternative port” and then reboot. Easy as that!
Dave is my hero today. Thanks Dave!
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