From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 1 20:45:26 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 D53A5106568B for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:45:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726758FC15 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o01KjPmH082198; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o01KjPWx082195; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:25 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Brahim LARCHET In-Reply-To: <4B3E388D.6060708@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4B3E34BD.4020503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4B3E388D.6060708@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:45:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote assistance for X 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: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:45:26 -0000 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