Starting the VNC server

To start the VNC server after booting and logging in, we just SSH to the multimedia server and enter the following command:

tightvncserver

The terminal will display the following response:

You can now access the multimedia server's desktop from your PC or Mac.

Installing NTP

Every time the board is powered, the clock is reset. This can be inconvenient when using a source code repository; therefore, the Network Time Protocol (NTP) will be installed and set up so that the board updates to the current time and date on power up. To install NTP, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ntp

Here's the output of the NTP install command:

Setting the local time zone

Once NTP is installed, a local time server should be set to offload the requests from global time servers. This is done by editing the /etc/ntp.conf file and replacing one or more of the default servers with a local time server that can be found via a web search. The following is an example ntp.conf file:

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