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"Chicken of the VNC" works for MAC http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ Dave On 3/7/06 6:57 pm, "Kay Diederichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thought: > *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** > *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** > > > Hi Randy, > > I can say the same thing as Clemens about VNC for connecting a Linux > server with a Windows client. I use the free viewer from www.realvnc.com > ; vncserver is part of the RHEL4 distro. At home I have a 768 kb/sec > link (128 uplink), and since switching to VNC from ssh -C it almost > feels like sitting in front of the machine at my workplace - ccp4i is a > breeze, and I can even use mozilla-mail . > > VNC can use a ssh tunnel so it's really secure, and thus does not > require to open up ports across the firewall. > > Don't know if VNC exists for the Mac, though. > > HTH, > > Kay > > Clemens Vonrhein wrote: > >> *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** >> *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** >> >> >> Hi Randy, >> >> I'm a convert to NX/FreeNX now completely: by opening a ssh tunnel to >> your lab-machine you are then able to open a window on your home >> computer that has a complete desktop in it. And it uses some very >> fancy compression methods ... don't ask me what. >> >> Sitting at home with a 1MB line (half the speed of what you have) it >> feels like sitting on the remote computer. Absolutely incredible >> ... at least to me (remembering the slow ssh -X connections, with or >> without -C). you can even integrate images with the normal MOSFLM >> running on the remote computer. >> >> Have a look at >> >> http://www.nomachine.com/ >> http://freenx.berlios.de/ >> >> Cheers >> >> Clemens >> >> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:17:16PM +0100, Randy Read wrote: >> >>> *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** >>> *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** >>> >>> >>> I just thought I would pass on a trick that Paul Adams and Nigel Moriarty >>> pointed out recently. That was in the context of the Phenix interface, but >>> it applies equally to ccp4i. >>> >>> If you've ever tried to run ccp4i over the network using ssh and X >>> forwarding, >>> you might have been discouraged by how slow it becomes, particularly with >>> anything less than the fastest connections. I had almost given up on >>> running >>> ccp4i when connecting from home via broadband (2Mb connection, which is fast >>> enough for most other things). >>> >>> Nigel looked into this problem and found out that the speed of X forwarding >>> can be increased dramatically by turning on compression when running ssh >>> (using the -C flag). Perhaps this is no news to many of you, but I had >>> certainly missed that flag in the documentation. As an illustration of the >>> size of the effect, it takes 260 seconds to open the Phaser molecular >>> replacement GUI without the -C flag on my home connection, but only 33 >>> seconds with the -C flag. Still slow, but bearable. >>> >>> On either an iBook running OSX 10.3 or a laptop running Fedora Core 4, the >>> command I use to connect is: >>> >>> ssh -X -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> The -X flag may not be required, depending on the setup, but says to turn >>> on X forwarding. Paul Adams says that this doesn't work for some >>> connections, >>> in which case replacing "-X" by "-Y" might work. This turns off some >>> security checks and may get around firewall issues. >>> >>> Presumably there are equivalent flags when connecting from non-Unix-based >>> machines, but I don't have an X client on my Windows machines; perhaps >>> someone else can comment. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Randy J. Read >>> Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge >>> Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Tel: + 44 1223 336500 >>> Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Fax: + 44 1223 336827 >>> Hills Road E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Cambridge CB2 2XY, U.K. www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk >>> >>> >> >> > -- *************************************************************** Dr David Briggs | Structural Biology Lab (309) | Tel : (+44)(0)20 7269 3360 Cancer Research UK | 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields | Holborn | London | UK | WC2A 3PX | ****************************************************************
