From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZu5U-0001x8-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:40:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46EBFE09D4; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF6FE09D4 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1107788eyg.40 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:40:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ICsVdycFgMfXZVjo5XAHGCublkNaZEgsBcCBbshKK1Y=; b=lJPL3m9smzw9dsztQ9urmEapAZbxoEbWzZXQfhFbIZszrfZMMDyyW+lQ39UmXgdUVo gRkp5BNRWxq4Nq5lmJalK4jOvBYunvuPAeQeadYC2NQ6/fRt/CbZKEqdQAWfg7GIa4h5 K9DcL9znmApc5SslXSklVefT6BtqQpuIz7/tk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=M8c8LsofntDaCYtHuitlcBi0pjHNsTFrW2FW7g5fuUfRJxEdXuResbHUeQNkUR1vSV tTHJVewqCW3zFedPtIsTU+fPUoDDJDzRcM+BdEcpBeTLNcklEG14ajxLXw9I9qgITyq3 Kh3t5Dgi7Nh/7yW7GfstNdGLAVBfXkS/o3uDQ= Received: by 10.213.26.140 with SMTP id e12mr3252130ebc.80.1264545609439; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-202-237.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.202.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm5589149ewy.11.2010.01.26.14.40.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:40:08 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:38:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-zen4; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4B58D0D4.3050608@gmail.com> <58965d8a1001220735m40e62723idb9ff787dd810a5b@mail.gmail.com> <4B5F6652.5020800@oversi.com> In-Reply-To: <4B5F6652.5020800@oversi.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001270038.21969.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: dcfcf88f-b11b-43fc-8a5d-868435c15aab X-Archives-Hash: 77e9070ad28bf419e2ac5ef7a22514a0 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 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com