freebsd stable - Jun 2005 - What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

Hello,

I'm riunning FreeBSD 5.4-stable (amd64) on this amd64 machine.
I would like to see the X display on this machine from another machine.
My first thought was VNC (tightVNC) as I'm using this on my other boxes
already. But alas, VNC isn't working on amd64.

I then saw FreeNX in the ports tree. It requires nxserver 1.4.0) which
is i386 only. No go there either.

What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen

> What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?
What about 'ssh -X remote-machine'?

Claus

X is a fully network aware display method just set your display
to the remote machine. If you worried about security either VNP
it or tunnel over SSH.
    
    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

> Hello,
> 
> I'm riunning FreeBSD 5.4-stable (amd64) on this amd64 machine.
> I would like to see the X display on this machine from another machine.
> My first thought was VNC (tightVNC) as I'm using this on my other boxes
> already. But alas, VNC isn't working on amd64.
> 
> I then saw FreeNX in the ports tree. It requires nxserver 1.4.0) which
> is i386 only. No go there either.
> 
> What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?
> -- 
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
> 
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there are several VNCs, buut either they are i386 or they are broken.

X forwarding is an option

If you using KDE, you can enable desktop sharing, it uses the vnc protocol, 
you can connect using a standard vnc client. (this is reported to work on 
AMD64)

This also will allow you to see the same X display on your desktop, and the 
remote machine.

I think gnome has something similar, but never tried it.


if you using another WM, cant think of more options, or wait till someone 
(with lots more time than me) can fix PR ports/71512 :)


On Monday 06 June 2005 17:03, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm riunning FreeBSD 5.4-stable (amd64) on this amd64 machine.
> I would like to see the X display on this machine from another machine.
> My first thought was VNC (tightVNC) as I'm using this on my other boxes
> already. But alas, VNC isn't working on amd64.
>
> I then saw FreeNX in the ports tree. It requires nxserver 1.4.0) which
> is i386 only. No go there either.
>
> What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:03:01AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen
wrote:
> 
> What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?
Stock X is sufficient.

My users use ThinBSD based thin clients to connect to a
FreeBSD/amd64 server.

-- 
Francois Tigeot