On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:51 pm, Marc Wiz wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:52:31PM -0600, KroNiC~BSD wrote:
I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried
TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the
tricks etc.. such as compression. I would think it would be unusable over
a modem. I found Rdesktop and it does work nice to talk to my XP machine
but the image is only 8-bit and would be better at say 24-bit. Is MS
remote desktop encrypted, i have not even checked it yet ,,if not maybe
their is a way to do rdesktop over ssh to the windows machine. Is there
other good solutions such as VNC but faster?
Take a look at the man page for lbxproxy. This will help conserve
bandwidth.
Now, whats the best Open Src way to have a remote NIX* X-server
session. I would like to use my freebsd desktop when i am traveling to
check email, surf the web and maybe use myplayer to watch a movie or play
a MP3. I was thinking of using the X protocol but heard it was too slow
and very bandwidth hundry. Is the latter correct? I would also like to
not only view my Freebsd computer from another nix* machine but also from
a windows box, is there a windows X client?
I use my computer as my own application server, using it with remote X
sessions with a compression level of 5 over ssh yields a good performance to
bandwidth ratio. Mail, IM, some light video editing with avidemux, office
suite, and not bad to use a web browser either if you've got broadband on
both ends. There is cygwin which will allow you to use X in windows, or
eXceed(non-free, but nice)
For MP3's just setup an icecast server on your freebsd system, and connect to
it with xmms or something. It's pretty easy to setup.
I don't profess to be an expert in these matters but I would be very
impressed to see someone do remote X to watch a movie over.
I can watch my tv card over the network, it uses about 4MB/s on a 100Mb
switched netowrk, but it works. If you don't have a lot of bandwidth you can
get 1 or 2 frames per sec, which will still allow you to keep track of game(
That's how I watched the superbowl while in the CS labs :( ).
There is WierdX which is Java based. I believe that should satisfy the
open source requirement.
Marc
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