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If you are using webmin this file is located in /root/.vnc. &nbsp;From there you can edit per the instructions above.<br />
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Thanks for your help.
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If you are using webmin this file is located in /root/.vnc.  From there you can edit per the instructions above.

Thanks for your help.

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It is important to note that Webmin also allows you to login using different users, so the path would be depend you the logged on user and its mapping in Webmin.<br />
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Cheer!
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It is important to note that Webmin also allows you to login using different users, so the path would be depend you the logged on user and its mapping in Webmin.

Cheer!

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When I start a VNC Session after creating an SSH Tunnel using Putty, I am not getting the GUI as expected but rather an X-Window with a command prompt.<br />
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My procedure:<br />
- Launch Putty and login as root. &nbsp;Then type vncserver. &nbsp;Returns the hostname:1. &nbsp;Then I close Putty.<br />
- Launch Putty with SSH Tunnels Port set ot 5901 and Destination set to localhost:5901<br />
- Finally I launch VNC with hostname:1. When I log in with root and password, I receive the command prompt instead of the GUI<br />
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When I start a VNC Session after creating an SSH Tunnel using Putty, I am not getting the GUI as expected but rather an X-Window with a command prompt.

My procedure:
- Launch Putty and login as root.  Then type vncserver.  Returns the hostname:1.  Then I close Putty.
- Launch Putty with SSH Tunnels Port set ot 5901 and Destination set to localhost:5901
- Finally I launch VNC with hostname:1. When I log in with root and password, I receive the command prompt instead of the GUI



Starting VNC through Putty SSH

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