From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 03:59:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8B8106564A for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:59:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f49.google.com (mail-fx0-f49.google.com [209.85.161.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E608FC12 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so211740fxm.36 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:59:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=gN8UCd8ojzwfB6foY7R1BuRniSjOsK+XiicHxe1gHCI=; b=MVFXYP5V/80C7nGGb9xIn75c2IBNAC6rm8rPfl+49I+rjGSVcvZurARtno2BXWYRI4 sxO+1S0mhp2msnl6qOa1hdlHIXgFmQRcGQjaO4f0so6ROEBYXez897Ics+4vEgOjDrVd 7Tk0I/WYxq+k7coDHjf31S86vomW9iWyX0slA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=JwzKCeoQMS/SnE0VFlzCjstY8erDdKh68xt1Klx2GgPtsIl6DBfS08Y2Xyi8Z1Kfc1 CQ4oXjIm8+rUWo247fyv+YA4JCQPkEfmlUIxc4mQhStD6aJwbKSS3DpQ7SBvDI96HYh7 P4YG9lsxrWuQFP/g5daIz8EnRsofyIRvXtcxA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.96.195 with SMTP id i3mr3875454fan.32.1292299184530; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.114.4 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:59:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <3375127378-437632400@intranet.com.mx> References: <3375127378-437632400@intranet.com.mx> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:59:44 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Jorge Biquez Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Kind of off topic. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:59:47 -0000 On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his > servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i > snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a commercial > software PCANywhere. He can have it but I am not sure if I would be able to > connect to that from my Freebsd machine (of course not by ssh). > What are you using for connecting to graphical interfaces of different OS's > from FreeBSD? > I tested some years ago a VNC software but did not work fine with MAC OSX > (recently released by then). > I know big security factors are involved for sure. > Any suggestion on what to use, not to expensive or free? > If you're connecting to Windows clients, use RDP, not VNC. /usr/ports/net/rdesktop /usr/ports/net/freerdp To X11 and other type clients, VNC. You can use /usr/ports/net/freenx and /usr/ports/net/linux-nx-client/ for a better experience although I haven't gotten that portion working under FreeBSD before. Once it's setup though it's way faster than an equal bandwidth/setttings RDP connection. -- Adam Vande More