Re: sharing desktop witn VNC
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:41:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: 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 Thanks, that sounds like good advice. Can you point me to some documnetation as to how ot do this? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sharing desktop witn VNC
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:31:17PM -0700, 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). I just looked on his machine, which is running KDE version 3.4.2, and I can't find that choice in his control center. Now I _do_ see it on a machine I have here that is runnig KDE version 3.3.2. His machine machine is FreebSD 4.11 STABLE, and the machine I happen to have KDE on is Debian. Could it be in a different place on his? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sharing desktop witn VNC
stan wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:31:17PM -0700, 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). I just looked on his machine, which is running KDE version 3.4.2, and I can't find that choice in his control center. Now I _do_ see it on a machine I have here that is runnig KDE version 3.3.2. His machine machine is FreebSD 4.11 STABLE, and the machine I happen to have KDE on is Debian. Could it be in a different place on his? Make sure he has kdenetwork installed (pkg_info kdenetwork\*). If he has kdenetwork try running krfb from a command prompt. Later Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sharing desktop witn VNC
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? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sharing desktop witn VNC
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sharing desktop witn VNC
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
