Re: vnc over a USB connection

2004-09-15 Thread Wayne Throop
ble to create one to use with netcat, or with ssh, which would work over USB, at far less effort than rewriting VNC. But again, not just a config item or an off-the-shelf tool, afaik. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: x0rfbserver or x11vnc?

2004-09-20 Thread Wayne Throop
x0vncserver.html http://karlrunge.com/x11vnc/index.html Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: VNC-type multi monitor application

2005-03-04 Thread Wayne Throop
se, keyboard, and cut and paste buffers working has been enough for me. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Synergy (was "multimonitor support")

2005-03-09 Thread Wayne Throop
dge of the display, and issue raise/lower or iconization operations for the VNC viewer associated with that screen edge (or region). It could be done in a few tens of lines of perl or tcl/tk, I would think. Since it seems reasonably easy, one may already exist

Re: "A VNC server is already running as :11" -- but it isn't true!

2005-06-25 Thread Wayne Throop
. I'm not sure how high it can go; I don't see that documented anywhere. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: vnc vs freeNX?

2006-02-14 Thread Wayne Throop
the same host. It is possible it does this short-circuit of acks better than freeNX in some cases. Mind you: I don't know that it does better, but it could. Certainly it can outperform unenhanced X protocol. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ V

x11vnc: Copy and paste

2006-03-04 Thread Wayne Throop
: Under x11vnc, is it possible to copy and paste text between the host : (vncviewer also runs under X) and the remote session? Yes. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I just tried it. It works unremarkably, in the normal way.) ___ VNC-List mailing

Re: x11vnc: Copy and paste

2006-03-06 Thread Wayne Throop
ocols, and most vnc versions tend to use only one of them). So, autocutsel may help. Or, it may be something else. Sorry to be unhelpful/misleading. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself fro

RE: x11vnc: Copy and paste

2006-03-07 Thread Wayne Throop
what the benefits of the vnc.so are. My comments are from the perspective of a user; there may be other things to say based on the innards of the two. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself

RE: using vnc like citrix

2006-03-10 Thread Wayne Throop
, free wine, so you could trade off fiddling with it youself, for getting codeweaver's pre-packaged version. There are also other products for running windows apps on linux, but wine is probably the simplest and most straightforward, in terms of how much extra windows and extra licensing of this

RE: using vnc like citrix

2006-03-11 Thread Wayne Throop
: No. VNC (at this time) does not work with multiple desktops on Windows. Huh. I thought it was "possible, but not for the faint of heart, and requiring mods above and beyond the standard install". But... I suppose that's very close to "does not work" for any practical

Re: using VNC display(s) to generate images on a webserver

2006-07-31 Thread Wayne Throop
can use x11vnc or x0vncserver to treat it as a vnc server for debugging, without having any vnc access overhead during normal operation. Just a thought. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: using VNC display(s) to generate images on a webserver

2006-08-02 Thread Wayne Throop
. : : You can see the result (updated every 5 minutes) at: : http://t-e-k.biz/VNC/vnc_load.html . : : Hint. You can use xsri (available on GNU/Linux and Cygwin) to set : the background of the virtual X created by VNC. : I use: xsri --tile=

Re: VNC and security issues at a university

2006-12-14 Thread Wayne Throop
locally if the tools can run locally 2) X forwarding via ssh, because it's more streamlined 3) use of -via Each of these has its own drawbacks, so it's not clear any are suitable. But they are all additional streamlining to consider. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: x-server:0

2002-07-01 Thread Wayne Throop
ting multiple virtual desktops? You could run multiple windows sessiosn via VMware, or buy an NT server with lots of citrix license (but then that makes VNC moot). Some other solutions have been rumored, but I haven't seen concrete references. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

VNC tablet (or, modern-day videotile)

2002-07-27 Thread Wayne Throop
f rocks. Indeed, this tinkering is what mostly made me want 640x480 pixels at minimum and improved performance. Any thoughts ? Anybody seen anything that might fit the bill ? Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: eSVNC - A FAST Win32 VNC with FileTransfer and a lot more...

2002-08-28 Thread Wayne Throop
. If the minimal size of the normal clients/servers are increased much, it's a Bad Thing. Or put it this way. I 'druther the file transfer stuff be packaged into separate executable images on unix (at the very least). Wayne Throop [

Re: Multiple Servers on a Win Machine...

2002-08-29 Thread Wayne Throop
and a separate read-write password to the same reflected session), and seems to have pre-compiled windows binaries as well as unix source (though I haven't tried it yet myselves). Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: VNC opens GUI on the server

2002-08-29 Thread Wayne Throop
. To see if that's the problem, manually set DISPLAY to the display number the vncserver printed when it started, typically hostname:1.0 or :1.0. If that works, you then merely need to chase down which startup script is clobbering the DISPLAY variable. If it doesn't work... well, "

Re: VNC and application control

2002-09-11 Thread Wayne Throop
t? If not, why not? Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Accessing the rfb Buffer

2002-09-11 Thread Wayne Throop
r remote, virtual or real, whatever you want. Writing back on the original is another kettle of fish. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Accessing the rfb Buffer

2002-09-12 Thread Wayne Throop
graphical information of one single client in the display, not the : entire screen. Sure. Only launch one client in the display, and you'll have the graphics from only one client in the framebuffer. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-Li

RE: Nautilus with VNC

2002-09-19 Thread Wayne Throop
en.de/krfb/ http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: vnc 3.3.4

2002-09-26 Thread Wayne Throop
tail yet; hence my asking about these features. If scaling has been worked on, it'd be a powerful motivator to me. ) Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Am I an ID10T? (Listening Viewer confusion)

2002-09-29 Thread Wayne Throop
ng somebody arrange for a server to connect to it (ie, by vncconnect on linux, or "add new client" on MSWindows) can be very useful indeed. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: remote file transfer/printing

2002-10-19 Thread Wayne Throop
mething I don't understand. What advantage is there in having this be "integrated"? Why not simply install file transfer/sharing and use it; what good does "integrating" it into the remote KVM processing do? Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: local printing

2002-11-01 Thread Wayne Throop
nfigured in windows. In short, the only data transfer that exists in most VNC distributions is the transfer of the X cutbuffer and/or windows cut/paste data. But luckily, that works out well for what you wanted to accomplish. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Server Problems

2002-11-03 Thread Wayne Throop
: Receive below error message when run "vncserver" : on solaris 8.0 (SPARC platform): : vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH. : How to solve this problem? The usual way to solve this problem is to put a directory containing xauth in your PATH. (We

RE: Accessing multiple VNC servers using only one SSH port?

2002-11-19 Thread Wayne Throop
or equiavlent to allow the vncclient to connect to the servers behind the firewall. That is, you say something like -D 1080 when you start your ssh session, and then configure whatever socksifier you use to expect a socks server at localhost:1080. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: confused with realvnc, tightvnc, xf4vnc, etc

2002-12-16 Thread Wayne Throop
: xf4vnc already includes the TightVNC optimizations in 4.2.0. Does that include the remote cursor handling? (That's something that, once you get used to it, you don't want to go back.) Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing l

Re: Idea to save bandwidth: Don't update screen

2003-01-17 Thread Wayne Throop
it'd help, or if the latency side effects would be worth it, but definitely seems worth looking into. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: local users desktop

2003-01-20 Thread Wayne Throop
entry is a bit out of date. It only mentions x0rfbserver. There are more recent better-performing alternatives for linux. http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/ http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL

Re: cut-paste with VNC on linux - 2 proposed changes

2003-02-10 Thread Wayne Throop
n the cursor is about to go remote, and when it is about to go local, would allow arbitrary policies to be installed for such things. H... a wrapper app could do that by detecting the mouse rolling over the boundary of the window (but synchrony between such a detection and the decision to s

Re: autocutsel (was "cut-paste with VNC on linux - 2 proposed changes")

2003-02-10 Thread Wayne Throop
. It seems to work best on the server side, keeping the selection identical to the cutbuffer. So, in your ~/.vnc/xstartup, you simply run autocutsel, and leave it in the background. Then, cutting and pasting will work much better (though still not totally perfectly). Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROT

Re: cut-paste with VNC on linux - why modify Xvnc server

2003-02-12 Thread Wayne Throop
needs to "suck" the data, because vncviewer notices when the cursor enters its window, and sends data (if it changed), and Xvnc tracks the cursor, and when it leaves the virtual screen, it sends data (if it changed). Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: vncserver on my gateway server

2003-02-15 Thread Wayne Throop
erver only via ssh? That way, you don't have to open any extra ports, and your traffic will be encrypted. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: vncserver on my gateway server

2003-02-16 Thread Wayne Throop
rs don't bother with linux drivers, and don't provide reliable specs. But that's just me. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: vncserver on my gateway server

2003-02-16 Thread Wayne Throop
display you are sitting at) and "remote" (some machine elsewhere, upon which you wish to run unixy apps). It's rather senseless to do "ssh -f remote xterm" instead of "xterm -e ssh remote&", since the major effective difference between the two is that the former

Re: Putty not working

2003-02-17 Thread Wayne Throop
one swell foop. Anybody know of a cygwin-based vncviewer? Or whether it's really as feasible as I suppose it is? Or, for that matter, whether a -via feature could use putty instead of cygwin openSSH? Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-

RE: Wish : chat between client and server

2003-02-19 Thread Wayne Throop
ever. Only downside is the dual operation needed to send: the message from the client side: copy and then send; on the server side, just typing at the message panel suffices. Fairly simple. Can be had Real Quick at Very Low Cost. Now how much would

Re: vncserver for my linux laptop

2003-03-08 Thread Wayne Throop
is getting a bit moldy) Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: vnc proxy?

2003-03-08 Thread Wayne Throop
art of the scripted wrapper). ( actually, it starts ssh -f -L [whatnot] gatewaybox sleep 20, but -N does the same thing better... and you can configure tightvnc to use -N if you want... but I digress. ) Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-Li

Re: What is Xvnc?

2003-03-14 Thread Wayne Throop
ith "server", but it is not so, due to what an X server serves (which is, access to a KVM (in the case of Xvnc, a virtual KVM))). Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Why to Loopback in SSH?

2003-03-17 Thread Wayne Throop
t's true; I use winvnc seldom, myselves. The unix version of this is that you should explicitly state your encoding methods when using ssh, since if you don't, it'll assume the connection is local, and thus compression and re-expansion is a waste of time, and thus it'll use &quo

RE: Controlling a remote VNC Server accessing a VPN

2003-06-06 Thread Wayne Throop
/IP to "private" addresses (ie, 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x). If it's allowed, it's certainly the simplest way. But often it's either not allowed, or not practical (eg if there are private addresses in your corporate web you need to access). Something to check out, t

RE: Controlling a remote VNC Server accessing a VPN

2003-06-06 Thread Wayne Throop
router to mediate your access to the internet. All the packets you send to the internet then bounce via your corporate net which VPN is active, but locally on the lan, anybody can talk to anybody freely, and VNC can thrive. A nice solution IF it's available. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

filter MIME, attachments

2002-05-28 Thread Wayne Throop
are stripped, so the digested messages can't be easily fed to a mime handler in any event. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: view only java applet

2002-06-09 Thread Wayne Throop
ake sure nobody but you can read the files key1 and key2.) Very simple. Very easy. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Different Linux session views from W2k?

2003-07-15 Thread Wayne Throop
xpect it to give the best performance, and should give a better match in terms of implemented features of the X server than vncviewer to an Xvnc. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Running VMWare in vncserver on Linux

2003-07-15 Thread Wayne Throop
extension (though I haven't actually done that with that edxtension). Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: displaying existing desktop

2003-07-16 Thread Wayne Throop
iirc, and should be easier to config and use) http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ (better performance and more featureful; a loadable module for XF86) Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remov

Re: VNC client behind proxy

2003-08-02 Thread Wayne Throop
runsocks vncviewer remotehost 3. use reverse connection; that is, have the server connect to the viewer; read VNC docs for details, but in general, you start the vncviewer in "listen mode"vncviewer -listen then arrange for the server to contact it vncconnect W

multiple viewers with varying latency

2003-08-19 Thread Wayne Throop
/sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-reflector/) to isolate performance issues, even in smaller groups? Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: x0rfbserver and libstdc

2003-10-28 Thread Wayne Throop
ely in C (as opposed to C++ in x0rfbserver classic, so it might have fewer library dependency problems, eg, no c++ dependency), and uses the libvncserver library. http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/index.html There's an interesting discussion of it innards and algorithms on that page; all i

Re: Question

2003-11-05 Thread Wayne Throop
se of libVNCserver. http://www.realvnc.com/4.0b4-download.html http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/LibVNCServer-0.6pre.tar.gz Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit:

Re: VNC with dump terminals??

2003-11-10 Thread Wayne Throop
;t be altered, ask karl runge about x11vnc with -noshm. http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/index.html Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: VNC with dump terminals?? [Hugo Boss: Virus checked]

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Throop
f you can't get the PC-acting-as-X-terminal to run some VNC server, getting the screen content by x11vnc -noshm or by xwd would work the same wherever xdmcp logs them in. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is chat between host and the client possible in VNC

2003-12-01 Thread Wayne Throop
transfer and chat is a bit more clumsy than on unix, PCAnywhere may be what you need (at a larger fee); if you have some folks using mac or unix that need to participate in remote access, or need multiple viewers, multicasting, or other "classroom" features, then VNC s

Re: using VNC as a passive viewer under Linux (viewing the local desktop on a remote box)

2003-12-06 Thread Wayne Throop
ility, and command line options. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: X window terminal

2004-02-18 Thread Wayne Throop
they move : rather than resize. Is there any "trick" to easily achieve resizing? Depends entirely on what window manager you are using. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the l

Re: Secure VNC

2004-03-12 Thread Wayne Throop
imply that the data will be interpreted as ascii characters. That is, it's not refering to the MIME type text/plain. "technical term" is a technical term which states that a specific word in a specific context has its meaning distorted beyond all recognitio

Re: how to transfer fles via vnc viewer

2004-03-26 Thread Wayne Throop
mostly use (1) or (3), depending, since I don't often use vnc between two windows computers. But others report good success with Ultra-VNC. There may be other ways, but these are the ones I'm familiar with. Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: on Linux/KDE, how do I let someone see my active screen?

2004-04-27 Thread Wayne Throop
urpose, since I have to talk to non-linux X servers sometimes, and it's easy to start up after the fact with no pre-planning. http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ http://www.realvnc.com/v4/man/x0vncserver.html http://karlrunge.com/x11vnc/index.html Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Cross-platform

2004-06-10 Thread Wayne Throop
rvers sometimes, and it's easy to start up after the fact with no pre-planning. http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ http://www.realvnc.com/v4/man/x0vncserver.html http://karlrunge.com/x11vnc/index.html Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ VNC

Re: Linux to Linux VNC

2004-07-18 Thread Wayne Throop
is purpose, since I have to talk to non-linux X servers sometimes, and it's easy to start up after the fact with no pre-planning. http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ http://www.realvnc.com/v4/man/x0vncserver.html http://karlrunge.com/x11vnc/index.html Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using VNC with dumb terminals

2004-08-02 Thread Wayne Throop
Maybe... just a vague estimate... up to 5 clients in a half-gigabyte to a gigabyte machine (though that'd be starting to get cramped, what with an Xvnc process and a mozilla or firefox browser process per client). Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED] __