[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX + VNC: Failure (Felix E. Klee)

[dewey hylton]

> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:29:43 +0200
> From: "Felix E. Klee" <fk at linuxburg.de>
> Subject: [FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX + VNC: Failure
> To: freenx-knx at kde.org
> Message-ID: <1126020583.26021.242273590 at webmail.messagingengine.com>
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> 
> I've tried several configurations for connecting to a remote VNC server
> via NX, all unsuccessfully: For example, I've setup the following system
> in VMWare 5.0.0 (I've also made tests with real machines):
> 
> * SuSE 9.2 (I've also tried SuSE 8.2)
> 
> * I installed NX 1.5.0 plus FreeNX 0.4.4 (RPMs where built from
>   source/nosource RPMS provided for SuSE 10.0: NX-1.5.0-17.nosrc.rpm,
>   FreeNX-0.4.1-1.1.src.rpm).
> 
> * I installed the VNC packages x11vnc-0.7.2-1.guru.suse92.i686.rpm (from
>   external source) and tightvnc-1.2.9-181 (part of SuSE 9.2).
> 
> I then tried to connect to the system using nxclient 1.5.0-106:
> 
> * Remote X11-via-NX sessions work flawlessly.
> 
> * VNC-via-NX sessions fail with TightVNC (started with "vncserver" -
>   creates a new display) and x11vnc (takes over an existing display).
>   The problem:
> 
>   - After authentication, nxclient successfully shows a window with the
>     remote desktop.
> 
>   - However, it seems that the data stream from the NX' VNC-client back
>     to the remote VNC server is totally unreliable: I cannot click on
>     anything in the remote desktop, and sometimes random click events
>     occur. Also I've seent the remote desktop redraw slowly, sometimes 
>     not at all.
> 
>   - After a while, nxclient shows a dialog window informing me that the
>     session terminates.
> 
> As a next step, I plan to test the commercial NX version, but first I'd
> like to know:
> 
> Has anyone successfully used FreeNX/NX to connect via VNC?
> -- 
> Felix E. Klee

i use freenx to connect with vnc all day long, every day i'm at work. i've used
tightvnc on the server side successfully, but currently i use ultravnc as the
windows server and realvnc as the linux server. specifically, i use the X module
on linux to provide a vnc connection to my X:0 ...

nxserver: 1.4.0 backend, 0.4.4 freenx frontend (running on freebsd)

clients : 1.4.0 and 1.5.0 clients, plus the 1.5.0 web-based java plugin - all
from both windows and linux.