Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:25 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Brahim LARCHET <brahim.larchet@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote assistance for X Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001011301210.82064@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4B3E388D.6060708@gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001010946530.81415@wonkity.com> <4B3E34BD.4020503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4B3E388D.6060708@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Brahim LARCHET wrote: > Le 01/01/2010 18:45, Matthew Seaman a ?crit : >> >> x2x sounds like it fits the bill: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=x2x&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports+7.0-RELEASE > > Synergy can do this too http://synergy2.sourceforge.net > > http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/faq.html#faq5 Those both sound more like software KVMs rather than remote control. An example of what I'm up against, from a couple of days ago: Them: It popped up a window that says error. Me: I'm going to need a bit more detail. Them: It was blue. Me: ... Okay. What did it say? Them: I can't read that small type, and anyway there's another window in front of it that's kind of fuzzy. Me: Okay, which window is active is called "focus", and well, it doesn't matter. Click on the title bar and drag that window out of the way. Them: What's a title bar? Me: That... er, bar at the top, with the, well, title on it. Them: When you say click, do you mean the left or right mouse button? Ultravnc (http://www.uvnc.com/) has a slick setup where you give the Windows user a binary to run, and it calls back to the support site. No setup needed the client's part. I don't know how much of that is encrypted. The shared session is important to be able to show the users how to do things in their own inevitably-customized session. Right now, I can run ssvncviewer -listen on the support system, then run this on the "supportee" system: ... remotehost="lightning" cmd="x11vnc -display :0 -localhost -connect localhost -ncache" ssh -t -c blowfish -R 5500:$remotehost:5500 localhost "$cmd" That works, and I think it meets the specs. Reversing connection combined with a remote tunnel is making me dizzy. And this is all on the LAN for testing, so allowing this in through the firewall will add more complexity. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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