From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 11 03:41:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCC816A418 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DFA13C45D for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IUwdA-0007Ny-Lo for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:41:41 -0700 Received: from mtl121c.math.arizona.edu ([128.196.225.166]) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1IUwcx-0007NY-H0; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:41:27 -0700 Message-ID: <46E60E42.20101@math.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:40:50 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doug@safeport.com, questions@freebsd.org References: <200709020222.21000.mchauber@gmx.net> <200709021356.23513.mchauber@gmx.net> <200709030021.30393.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20070910181001.R5423@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070910181001.R5423@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.8 (-----) Cc: Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out.... 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: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:41:14 -0000 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" 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