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From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....
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On 9/2/07, Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:37:49 Andrew Gould wrote:
>
> >
> > Don't feel guilty.  Keep a FreeBSD server running at home while you
> travel!
> > You can backup your data securely and use it remotely via tightvnc.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> There must be some trick to accessing a FreeBSD server via VNC.
> I have done it on Linux but I could not get it to work in FreeBSD.
> _______________________________________________
>

I've had good luck with both vnc and tightvnc.  The only "tricks" that I can
think of are remembering the right window/port and allowing the ports
through the firewall.

Andrew