Another one lost to twill... but I can't feel sad about it ;). Let me know how it goes!
cheers, --titus On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:54:37PM -0500, John Mudd wrote: -> Thanks! VNC works much better than ssh alone. -> -> The only stumbling block is that the remote Linux box has all but port -> 22 (ssh) blocked. So running vncviewer at home couldn't access the -> port (5901) published by the remote vncserver. But it's easy to -> forward the remote port home with the following command. -> -> ssh -2 -n -R 2024:localhost:5901 -N <my home IP addr> -> -> I chose port 2024 arbitrarily. Now I can connect from home using the following. -> -> vncviewer localhost:2024 -> -> It works great. This remote Linux box only gives me about 30 KB/sec -> net access but now that I'm using VNC I have a Linux desktop that -> works well. Now I can try Firefox and Seleniun-IDE. -> -> John -> -> -> -> On 3/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -> -> > Message: 1 -> > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:15:59 +1100 -> > From: James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> > Subject: Re: [twill] twill & spidermonkey? -> > To: [email protected] -> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -> > -> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:35:20PM -0500, John Mudd wrote: -> > > Using ssh causes the browser to appear on my home Linux system but -> > > requires a lot of net traffic which slows testing. -> > -> > Methods to reduce this net traffic ... -> > -> > 1. install a VNC server on the remote system and use a VNC client on -> > your home Linux system, -> > -> > 2. install a VNC server on another remote system, use a VNC client on -> > your home Linux system, and then within that run "ssh -X" to the remote -> > system. -> > -> > With the VNC protocol, you can close the client, thus stopping screen -> > updates (net traffic), and then reconnect the client later to see the -> > result. With some VNC programs you can also restrict the update rate. -> > -> > VNC makes periodic updates to the screen. But using ssh every update is -> > passed across the net. An automated web browser would generate a lot of -> > screen updates, and so the difference between VNC and ssh would be more -> > obvious. -> > -> > -- -> > James Cameron -> > http://ftp.hp.com.au/sigs/jc/ -> > -> -> _______________________________________________ -> twill mailing list -> [email protected] -> http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill -> -> _______________________________________________ twill mailing list [email protected] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill
