VNC Server

[Graeme Nichols]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:09, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:22, Rick Stevens wrote:> 
<snip>
> > Rick, thank you very much, you're a wiz. I hadn't picked up on the
> > ability to size the server desktop, I was mistakenly trying to size the
> > viewer, Duh! As for the password problem I guess it must be the ssh
> > password. Prefixing the command to start the viewer with 'sudo' results
> > in being asked for root's password on barney followed later by the
> > prompt 'password'. Entering my own login password at this prompt up
> > comes the viewer screen.
> > 
> > It all works like a dream now, thanks in no small measure to your help,
> > and I now know a LOT more about Linux. The 'fun is in the learning'.
> 
> You have a very strange idea of "fun", but I get your drift.  ;-)
> Glad to help.  It is kinda nifty, isn't it?
> 
> By the way, you can speed up the display a bit by using the "-C" option
> (compress) to ssh.  To do this, set up something like:
> 
> 	VNC_VIA_CMD="/usr/bin/ssh -f -C -L "$L":"$H":"$R" "$G" sleep 20"
> 	export VNC_VIA_CMD
> 
> then run "vncviewer -via gateway host".

Thanks Rick, will give that a whirl when I have sorted out FC2 problems.
I now have the ethernet card working but I had to set it up as eth1. I
have also a sit0 interface before the eth1 in the list. Do you know what
that is?

Ta.

Graeme.