Remote Control

[BT2008]

Hello BT(4) users,

I have installed BT4 on a appliance without a VGA connection.
Is there a way to std control the desktop --> VNC
Is there a way to make a connection from another PC to BT4 with PUTTY!

Thx for the replies

[Lincoln]

Have you tried SSH?

[kidFromBigD]

Hello BT(4) users,

I have installed BT4 on a appliance without a VGA connection.
Is there a way to std control the desktop --> VNC
Is there a way to make a connection from another PC to BT4 with PUTTY!

Thx for the replies

Yes, yes, all this is possible and actually quite easy to establish... now you want the detailed steps, right?

Best bet is to learn for yourself how this is accomplished. Plenty of tutorials can be found with Google's help, as BT4b is based on Ubuntu. What works for Ubuntu should work for BT4b.

Ok, this post helped me get VNC installed:
http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19428
--> I did not follow this step-by-step, but rather used what made sense for BT4b, so beware.

Hope this helps.

[imported_aliosity]

You don't say whether BT4 has booted into X or similar

From after login prompt issue these commands

sshd-generate
// WAIT AROUND 15 SECONDS - for it to create keys //

then issue
/etc/init.d/ssh start


You should now be able to SSH in from another machine and create non-root users etc...


I'm just curious as to why you would use this setup, what application does it serve?

[kidFromBigD]

You don't say whether BT4 has booted into X or similar

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I'm just curious as to why you would use this setup, what application does it serve?

I'll take that one: My system runs headless. That is, no keyboard, mouse or monitor is directly connected. Just the power, wired ethernet, and a USB WiFi stick. It spends its days alone in a dark room trying to keep itself from overheating with all the tasks I currently throw at it.

So, VNC and ssh are important parts of my system. If I wish to really accelerate a task, I can shutdown the VNC completely, and throw all the CPU cycles and memory footprint on, say, pyrit.

[BT2008]

When I reboot BT the SSH Server is down, how is't possible to start it by default! The same for my eth0, when I change /etc/network/interfaces to

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address x.x.x.x
netmask x.x.x.x
gateway x.x.x.x

after reboot eth0 is not up, when I give the command ifconfig eth0 up, then the eth0 is working but without any static IP!

I think that I must change a boot up script but don't no what or how!
Hope to hear from you

I found this on the Internet

Run the terminal command:
x11vnc -forever -usepw -httpdir /usr/share/vnc-java/ -httpport 5800

It's working just fine BUT the next step I don't how to accomplish!!

-->add it for auto-starting in future sessions<--

Hope somebody can help me.

I don't now if this important BUT

When I set the clock and I reboot BT4 then the time is different then i configured.

It seems that everything I do, it's back to the old setting when I reboot.

Can somebody help with this problem

[adri_ht_]

after reboot eth0 is not up, when I give the command ifconfig eth0 up, then the eth0 is working but without any static IP!

I'm gonna help you with part of it, but you must start using google. To setup static ip:

nano /etc/network/interfaces

Change the network interface that you are using to the following...

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1

[BT2008]

I'm gonna help you with part of it, but you must start using google. To setup static ip:

nano /etc/network/interfaces

Change the network interface that you are using to the following...

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1

Thx for your reply .

Your right, that's what I do, first google and then if I don't find the correct information I search the forum or ask a question.

That's what I did, change the information in nano /etc/network/interfaces.
The only thing I did not do is the line with network and broadcast.
So I put the line with network and broadcast in the interfaces and rebooted my system --> but no luck!!!!

When I logon with root and give the command ifconfig the only thing I see is:
lo Link encap: Local Loopback.

When I give the command ifconfig eth0 up and then ifconfig i see
the eth0 + lo but eth0 is without a IP adres.

What's going wrong!!!

After searching I found this

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/network_start
#
/etc/init.d/networking start

~# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/network_start
~# update-rc.d network_start defaults

And now it's working

[cr1spyj0nes]

that il help, yeah.

[adri_ht_]

What's going wrong!!!

After searching I found this

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/network_start
#
/etc/init.d/networking start

~# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/network_start
~# update-rc.d network_start defaults

And now it's working

For some reason /etc/init.d/networking was not executing at start up. Probably wrong permissions?

~# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/networking

Is also good to know the Linux way of setting static IPs, that way you don't have to depend on Ubuntu's predefined code. Create a little script that executes at start up. Four simple things you need to set up static IP: ip-address, subnet mask, default gateway, dns server.

#!/bin/bash
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.2.1
echo "nameserver 205.32.45.60" > /etc/resolv.conf

Save the script, give it executing rights and simple call at start up from /etc/rc.local!!