From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 17:35:50 2004 Return-Path: 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 E751116A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B7F43D1D for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10]) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1CSIrN-0007sB-Tl; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:35:50 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:35:59 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041110231449.GG39219@keyslapper.org> <20041111163815.GD59958@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20041111163815.GD59958@keyslapper.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411111135.59245.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc571e62678d474264de49f327b80b6fb5350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: Louis LeBlanc Subject: Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:51 -0000 On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:38 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/10/04 06:14 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > > Quick question about interconnectivity. > > > > You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility > > called RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers > > may also be familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection > > ?) or RDP (?). The purpose of said utilities is to provide a sort > > of graphical shell similar to an X session from a remote machine in > > a window. > > > > There are several rdesktop and vnc clients in the ports, so rather > > than go through the flurry of install-tryout-uninstall/repeat, I > > figured I'd go to the place to ask questions. Here. > > > > So, who's using these clients, and how effective have you been > > finding them? Any gotchas? How cool is it? Do they just plain > > suck? And more to the point, which one(s) should I start with on > > the short list? > > > > All feedback is welcome - and appreciated. > > Lou > > Very cool feedback. Thank you all. I'll start looking into the > terminal service (it didn't get installed with W2K, but I haven't > checked out XP Pro yet) and use VNC in the meantime. I'll be using > it to write Word docs mostly, and if it's efficient enough, I might > just see how well Escape Velocity works (I know, probably not at > all). Network security isn't an issue because it's all my personal > network behind a firewall. > > Thanks again. > Lou I'm entering this thread late; so please forgive me if I'm duplicating someone else's input. One of TightVNC's enhancements over VNC is the ability to access the server from a web browser. TightVNC listens on port 5800 + the display number. Therefore, if you would normally use a vncviewer to access the TightVNC server 192.168.0.1:1, you could also access the desktop using any gui internet browser at: http://192.168.0.1:5801/ (I have NOT tested this from browser on a pda or cell phone.) TightVNC is available for many operating systems including FreeBSD (it's in the ports), Windows and Linux. I don't think it's available for Mac OSX. Best of luck, Andrew Gould