From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 22:21:59 2007 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 EC04316A418 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:21:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CD913C468 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:21:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8AMLw1W074231; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:21:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l8AMLwL2074228; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:21:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: doug To: Pollywog In-Reply-To: <200709030021.30393.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Message-ID: <20070910181001.R5423@fledge.watson.org> References: <200709020222.21000.mchauber@gmx.net> <200709021356.23513.mchauber@gmx.net> <200709030021.30393.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@safeport.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:22:00 -0000 On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Pollywog wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:37:49 Andrew Gould wrote: > >> >> Don't feel guilty. Keep a FreeBSD server running at home while you travel! >> You can backup your data securely and use it remotely via tightvnc. >> >> Andrew > > There must be some trick to accessing a FreeBSD server via VNC. > I have done it on Linux but I could not get it to work in FreeBSD. I am using tightvnc-1.2.9_1 on FreeBSD and the windows versions of tightvnc on win2k and windows XP Pro. On FreeBSD I only have used vncviewer running the server on the winders boxes. I am using FreeBSD 6.2. The only issue I had was the screen quality with XP Pro which went away with the latest version of the tightvnc windows software. On Mac OS/X I am running Vine VNC from Redstone Software. The thing that I have not tried is going from windows/mac to FreeBSD, using ssh for that. Is that the issue for you?