Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Stan Fotinos
Hi Rob I find that NoMachine is more reliable and performs much better on lower bandwidths and If this go wrong you can ssh into the server and restart it using the cli. You don't need to install the full version on the clients server/client just the client enterprise version (free) will do t

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread drew Roberts
Rob, On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 5:50 PM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2021, Brandon Anjeleno wrote: > > > snip > > Here's a thought: can x11vnc be run in user mode, i.e. not as root? > Yes, that's how I run it on many boxes. I kick it off from : /home/rd/.config/au

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Geoff Barkman
I'm wondering if having another remote desktop client installed might help get over your problems? There is the commercial software TeamViewer and another that I use called dwservice.net You don't have to worry about any port forwarding through your firewall etc. DW Service is opensour ce and free.

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
On Mon, 10 May 2021, Brandon Anjeleno wrote: Hey Rob, I've had MANY issues with x11vnc running consistently on Debian 8 Jessie with RD 2.10.3. It's configured to run in systemd. Sometimes when I try to remote in, the greeter window is completely missing. When that happens, I'm able to SSH in and

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
I do have a script running to restart x11vnc. If it crashed, the script works perfectly. But this morning instead of crashing, it froze. And the more I think about it, the more I think there must be some underlying issue. I've got a lot of CentOS 7 machines running Rivendell, as well as some

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread David Klann
On 5/10/21 11:45, Rob Landry wrote: > > > Here is the x11vnc command: > > /usr/local/bin/x11vnc -display :0 -auth guess -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd > -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -shared -forever -bg -rfbport 5900 > > It's run by a startup script triggered by root's crontab at boot time. > > There are no

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread drew Roberts
x11vnc sometimes crashes on me. sometimes infrequently, sometimes way too frequently. I try to be ssh'ed into the machine when using x11vnc and I have a script that will restart it if it does crash and go away. all the best, drew On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:18 AM Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.c

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread David Klann
Hi Rob, On 5/10/21 07:18, wrote: > > > I have a client who is running RD 2.19.3 running on CentOS 7, installed > according to the Paravel instructions. Most of his people are doing their > shows from home via Comrex Access. They are VNC'ing in to the Rivendell > system in the air studio to control

Re: [RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
Here is the x11vnc command: /usr/local/bin/x11vnc -display :0 -auth guess -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -shared -forever -bg -rfbport 5900 It's run by a startup script triggered by root's crontab at boot time. There are no entries in any logs that show any problem. Rob

[RDD] x11vnc woes

2021-05-10 Thread Rob Landry
I have a client who is running RD 2.19.3 running on CentOS 7, installed according to the Paravel instructions. Most of his people are doing their shows from home via Comrex Access. They are VNC'ing in to the Rivendell system in the air studio to control rdairplay and doing their breaks live v