On Sep 22, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Micah wrote:
stan wrote:
I'm trying to use tighvnc to "share" a desktop with a friend,
for educational purposes.
I've been able to run vncserver on my local machine, and connect
to it with vncviewer. I've also been able to ssh to his
machine (with X forwarding turned on) and do the same thing, but
this is really slow.
In the case of his FreebSD machine I just got the simple session
that xstart produces.
How can I star vncserver on his FreebSD machine, such that I get
a full blown KDE desktop? This is BTW what he gets when he logs in
via kdm. Is there a way to share an already running
X session with vnc? Or do I have to start a new session using
vncserver?
KDE provides a VNC server that allows you to connect to an already
running KDE session. From the KDE control center select "Internet
& Network" --> "Desktop Sharing". Adjust the settings to your
liking. I've had keyboard problems with it when connecting from the
RealVNC client (massively repeated characters making it impossible
to type anything).
Later,
Micah
Running ssh -C is wise as it compresses the ssh stream. I don't
suggest straight VNC as it's all plaintext data going across a
network, where using port forwarding via SSH would decrease your
problems to near nil in terms of someone sniffing your traffic.
-Garrett
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