From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 19:33:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02AF16A41F for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:33:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B54C43D45 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:33:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from [192.168.15.100] (really [137.186.246.196]) by priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060115193318.IEEO5786.priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net@[192.168.15.100]>; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:33:18 -0700 Message-ID: <43CAA384.9030703@daltons.ca> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:33:24 -0700 From: Aaron Dalton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Stevenson References: <43CA8534.4010306@daltons.ca> <20060115192747.GA32153@abbott.allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <20060115192747.GA32153@abbott.allenmyland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with X11 Forwarding 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: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:33:19 -0000 Ken Stevenson wrote: > > I'm new to FreeBSD, so I may be off base, but I use vncserver on my > FreeBSD box when I need an X session. Then I just setup Putty to forward > port 5900 to 127.0.0.0:5901, make an ssh connection to my FreeBSD server, run > UltraVNC on my Windows box and connect to localhost. > Thanks for your reply! I have been told VNC is a good way to go as well, but some have mentioned some performance issues. What have you found? It works liveably well? -- Aaron Dalton | Super Duper Games aaron@daltons.ca | http://superdupergames.org