Installation instructions for VNC
Some of the tools in the iSeries Tools for Developers PRPQ use the X Windowing System to display windows. This would require you to have a Unix or Linux based client as your desktop PC. Alternatively, you could run a product such as Hummingbird Exceed which emulates X on the Windows platform. Yet another alternative is an open source product VNC. The source is freely available from the AT&T labs web site However, to run this server in PASE you would need to compile the source on an AIX machine. So, the following instructions detail how you can download a precompiled OS/400 PASE ready version of VNC, restore it to a V4R5 or later system, and easily get started using VNC.
NOTE: as of Spring 2002, VNC has been included in the 57PTL-99 Distribution, so if you have a recent copy of this PRPQ, you will not need to download this older copy of VNC.
(1) Pre-create the save files on your iSeries system.
On your iSeries box system, run the following commands:
(2) Download these save files.
One way to do this is right click on the file name and choose "save files as", then save the file to your PC.
Also download the vncviewer and make it available on your PC.
(3) FTP the files to the iSeries machine.
To FTP the files you downloaded to your PC to the iSeries, run the following commands on your PC:
(4) Restore the save files.
To restore the save files run the following commands on the iSeries:
(5) Create a vnc password file
Create a passwd file containing your encrypted password by running the following command on your iSeries box:
(6) Run a setup program for the icewm window manager.
On the iSeries start the PASE shell by running:
Then run the following commands to set up some symbolic links (case matters on this command):
(7) Start the VNC server
Run the following command on the iSeries to start your VNC Server environment:
When the server starts you will see a message similar to the following:
New 'X' desktop is yoursystemname:1
(note that each time another vncserver is started, you will see a different number in the place of :1 in the example above)
(8) Next start the vncviewer you downloaded to your pc earlier:

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