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Date:      Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:40:50 -0700
From:      Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>
To:        doug@safeport.com,  questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....
Message-ID:  <46E60E42.20101@math.arizona.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070910181001.R5423@fledge.watson.org>
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doug wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
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You just need to do sshd_enable="YES" in your rc.conf file

Speaking of which SSVNC is the newest version of TightVNC and is in ports




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