Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is lightyears ahead of any other and there are clients for windows/mac/solaris and it uses ssh already so no need to mess with tunnelling. It can also proxy local VNC and RDP connections to make them faster, too. I tried nxserver-freenx. The performance is indeed impressive. Yet it didn't work 'out-of-the-box'. I had to assign write perms over /tmp, as nx user is attempting to write to that folder. FYI. Amit
Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 00:01:54 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is lightyears ahead of any other and there are clients for windows/mac/solaris and it uses ssh already so no need to mess with tunnelling. It can also proxy local VNC and RDP connections to make them faster, too. I tried nxserver-freenx. The performance is indeed impressive. Yet it didn't work 'out-of-the-box'. I had to assign write perms over /tmp, as nx user is attempting to write to that folder. /tmp MUST have write permissions anyway. It needs to be 777 plus sticky dir as the entire point of it is for any user to write to it So your box was broken. If it had been fixed, nx would probably have worked out the box -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is lightyears ahead of any other and there are clients for windows/mac/solaris and it uses ssh already so no need to mess with tunnelling. It can also proxy local VNC and RDP connections to make them faster, too.
[gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:10 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I've settled on tightvnc since so many different clients and servers support it (windows, linux, etc). The Gnome vnc server (vino) also supports tightvnc extentions. It can be a bit of a hassle to get going, but make sure vino is running on the server as a logged-in user. Then run (I use net-misc/tightvnc): $ vncviewer -encodings tight host or to tunnel it over ssh: $ vncviewer -encodings tight -via 123.456.789.012 localhost and to change the ssh port: $ VNC_VIA_CMD=/usr/bin/ssh -p 12345 -f -L %L:%H:%R %G sleep 20 vncviewer -via 123.456.789.012 localhost It works pretty well, even over dialup. You do need the remote user logged in though. If you want a terminal-services type model, then you can set up vnc to run as root and take users to the gdm (or other) login manager. Search Google for the instructions. I've seen it working, but never done it myself. I would definitely put it behind ssh in this case. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au My education message will resignate amonst all parents. George W. Bush January 19, 2000 Quoted in the New York Post.
