Comments on: Enable/Disable Remote Desktop from the Command Line

By: SHINOD

SHINOD — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:01:01 +0000

Really great answer. I was looking for an answer quite long time. Very much useful indeed. Thanks in cillion.

By: murugan

murugan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:23:05 +0000

need details to remove security for remote desktop

By: sugianto

sugianto — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:01:43 +0000

i tried those commands in ubuntu 9.10 but it didn’t work
thank you

By: T

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:12:29 +0000

Thanks… Working with CentOS 5.4

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:07:22 +0000

I deleted the menu shortcut in gnome
System>Preferences>”Remote Desktop Preferences”

How do I restore the link..
Crazy I know…

Thanks

By: justin

justin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:49:33 +0000

Not only has the commands to enable vnc via ssh not worked, it appears to have done more than that, it has broken completely remote desktop on my ubuntu 8.10 system.

By: justin

justin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:33:06 +0000

Sorry to disagree with the poster, but the two command most certainly do not work with Ubuntu 8.10. I have tried them with two machines on my local LAN and the commands do absolutely nothing.

By: napster

napster — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:28:02 +0000

Hi,

This is a good explanation. I was looking fr this kind of explanation. Thanks buddy it helped me alot.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:19:52 +0000

I happened to solve my own problem. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7401969 for more details and a script to toggle remote desktop on and off. Basically, you have to run ‘dbus-launch gconftool …’.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:45:50 +0000

I can also confirm Lex and Craig’s comments. Disabling Remote Access using gconftool over SSH does not work anymore. It used to work a few Ubuntu releases ago, but it doesn’t work in 8.10, 9.04, (maybe even 8.04, but I can’t remember).

Is there anyway to get this to work again? Thanks.