vnc & screen savers

2001-01-22 Thread William L. (Bill) Barth
I have a strange problem when using Xvnc and screen savers. If Xvnc is in full-screen mode and xscreensaver blanks the screen both locally and on the remote end the keyboard is no longer recognized by the viewer. It's not just that the viewer doesn't send the keys, it appears that it doesn't recei

Re: VNC and Firewalls, a story.

2001-01-09 Thread William L. (Bill) Barth
> "Joseph" == Joseph A Knapka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OT: is that your actual email address or did somebody's mail client/server muck things up. ('cuz I just looked in the passwd file at work and you don't have an account ther

Re: VNC and Firewalls, a story.

2001-01-09 Thread William L. (Bill) Barth
>>>>> "Ehud" == Ehud Karni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ehud> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:36:09 -0600 (CST), William L. (Bill) Barth Ehud> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> home$ ssh -t work ssh work1 /pathtov

Re: VNC and Firewalls, a story.

2001-01-09 Thread William L. (Bill) Barth
> "BJ" == BJ Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BJ> In order to avoid the multiple nested ssh's, use a port BJ> redirector (eg. redir). On my firewall, I redirect port 24 to BJ> port 22 on my Solaris box, so from home I do: ssh -p 24 ... I assume that you mean that on firewal

VNC and Firewalls, a story.

2001-01-05 Thread William L. (Bill) Barth
I noticed that there were several questions regarding using VNC and firewalls in the FAQ (50, directly and 51-54 indirectly) and a write-up in the contrib section on the subject, so I thought I'd share my experience with the community. My setup: (Apologies to the ASCII art impaired :) -