Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
In 20090410172143.71e0c...@coercion mike_kazant...@fraggod.net (Mike Kazantsev) writes: --Sig_/jt3LFSWbbFXQHdaTjHGlbt4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:05:49 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Any clues are welcome. I know that it's rather workaround than a solution, but prehaps you might try one of the other vnc implementations, like tightvnc (net-misc/tightvnc). Tightvnc doesn't even connect. Or it connects and then hangs. Basically I am happy with any X-VNC client that I can use for this. After I switched to another VNC-Server (for the time) interestingly enough the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, ATT sponsored VNC offered no encryption (except perhaps as https in the browser-based Java version?). The last I heard was that work had ceased upon it, following the termination of ATT sponsorship, but that some of the authors had started their own company selling VNC-based solutions. Their new products are used by at least one company that sells KVM-IP switches, but I believe they are all closed proprietary. I think more than one OSS / 3rd-party VNC project have, as a consequence, added encryption, but I don't believe that any of them are compatible. :( It really is a shame, IMO. VNC brought us cross-platform screensharing, but without encryption one is reluctant to use it outside the LAN. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
Zebedee was (I think) originally designed to offer an encrypted port based tunnel for vnc amongst other apps. Ive found it extreemly useful over the years, and far more stable/flexible/featureful than the ssh alternative, especially over poor and dialup connections. zebedee + vnc is classic unix - each doing its own task ... well BillK On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:11 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, ATT sponsored VNC offered no encryption (except perhaps as https in the browser-based Java version?). The last I heard was that work had ceased upon it, following the termination of ATT sponsorship, but that some of the authors had started their own company selling VNC-based solutions. Their new products are used by at least one company that sells KVM-IP switches, but I believe they are all closed proprietary. I think more than one OSS / 3rd-party VNC project have, as a consequence, added encryption, but I don't believe that any of them are compatible. :( It really is a shame, IMO. VNC brought us cross-platform screensharing, but without encryption one is reluctant to use it outside the LAN. Stroller. -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
[gentoo-user] VNC question
Hi, I try to use vncviewer to access a OSX box with 10.5.6 and 'screen sharing' enabled. I have no problems with another mac that has another vnc server running but I thought, let's try the one, that comes with the OS. If I connect using vncviewer I get: VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.3 for X - built Apr 9 2009 21:56:01 Copyright (C) 2002-2008 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Thu Apr 9 23:14:45 2009 CConn: connected to host 192.168.1.22 port 5900 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8 Thu Apr 9 23:14:50 2009 TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16. CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 CConn: Using ZRLE encoding main:End of stream And it returns. Are there any extensions in Apple's solution that cause this or is it maybe a problem with color depth on the x-server that I am running the client on (already o Xorg 1.5). Any clues are welcome. Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:05:49 + (UTC)
Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote:
Any clues are welcome.
I know that it's rather workaround than a solution, but prehaps you
might try one of the other vnc implementations, like tightvnc
(net-misc/tightvnc).
Also, color depth certainly shouldn't be the issue, since you can
easily specify the depth used to create images on server ('-depth'
option in tightvnc), like 8 bits, in case of very slow connection,
regardless of depth actually used in underlying systems.
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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Hi, I try to use vncviewer to access a OSX box with 10.5.6 and 'screen sharing' enabled. I have no problems with another mac that has another vnc server running but I thought, let's try the one, that comes with the OS. I have successfully connected to OSX built-in screen sharing from KDE's krdp program.
