Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:52:36 -0600 From: "Jay Austad" <austad@marketwatch.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Remote Desktop Message-ID: <54180709DD3FE145917BB165AFE7EFA002E0D60D@mspexch2.office.mktw.net> In-Reply-To: <20020311175608.56f4577c.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
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You'll probably want to put your VNC session over a ssh tunnel with the compression flag, otherwise it's *slow*. Supposedly there's an app called TinyVNC that has compression built in and is supposed to be quite fast, but I haven't tried it. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: ScaryG [mailto:freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:56 PM > To: Andre Elferink > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Remote Desktop > > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:44:25 -0800 (PST) > Andre Elferink <andrebsd@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I am wondering if or rather how would I go about > > connecting to my home system (FreeBSD 4.5) from a Mac > > or PC (probibly running windows) over the internet... > > so basicly that i can bring up my home systems desktop > > like im sitting infront of it from a remote mac or > > pc.. or in simplest terms just do what "go2mypc" does. > > I would also suggest VNC... > > It's in the ports so you can easily compile it there. > > The VNC site also has downloads for Windoze. > > This address from Defcon1 should have everything you need to > get going: > http://www.defcon1.org/About_Us/News/Upcoming_Articles/CVS-Server/VNC-Se rver/vnc-server.html Be careful of the word wrapping.. You could always just go to www.defcon1.org and then just click the link for VNC at the bottom right. Enjoy! -Gerry Web Hosting // Primary & Secondary DNS Services at http://www.interpool.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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