Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 00:01:54 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux).
> >> Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >
> > definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is
> > lightyears ahead of any other and there are clients for
> > windows/mac/solaris and it uses ssh already so no need to mess with
> > tunnelling. It can also proxy local VNC and RDP connections to make
> > them faster, too.
> 
> I tried nxserver-freenx. The performance is indeed impressive. Yet it
> didn't work 'out-of-the-box'. I had to assign write perms over /tmp, as
> nx user is attempting to write to that folder.

/tmp MUST have write permissions anyway. It needs to be 777 plus sticky dir as 
the entire point of it is for any user to write to it

So your box was broken. If it had been fixed, nx would probably have worked 
out the box

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