Logging into GNOME throught the command line

[MrSparkle]

I have a server which has a VNC server and an SSH server running on it. For remote maintenance I prefer to use VNC but when I reboot the comp it goes to the login screen and I can't connect to VNC unless its already logged into GNOME.

I can log in to the command line through SSH though. I tried using the gnome-session command but it keeps giving me this error message.

(gnome-session:5569): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

I googled that error message but everyone that asked questions about it seems to be trying to open up the X Window on their own client comp rather than starting up GNOME on the remote server like I'm trying to do.

[Prometheum]

X11 forwarding needs to be enabled on the remote side and you need to specify you're using it on the client. This can be done with the -X flag for ssh, and the line "X11Forwarding yes" in your sshd.conf.

[MrSparkle]

Its not my comp I wanna run the servers GNOME on I wanna make the server log into GNOME so then I can connect to the servers VNC server.

You will need to edit the /etc/inittab first, and set the run level to 5.
If you do not know how to do this, RTFMP ( man inittab ).
Then install either KDM or GDM ( if it is not already installed ).
Configure them to auto-log you in.

[MrSparkle]

Yeah I could do that I could even disable the login screen altogether but I dont want people fuckin with the external harddrive connected to the server. I have it set so my account has write to the external harddrive but the guest account with no password cant.

[Prometheum]

That's a stupid solution for this. Set up your system not to require itself to be brutally hacked for it to function, and your problems will cease.