Problems with X11 Forwarding

Aaron Dalton aaron at daltons.ca
Sun Jan 15 11:33:19 PST 2006


Ken Stevenson wrote:
> 
> I'm new to FreeBSD, so I may be off base, but I use vncserver on my
> FreeBSD box when I need an X session. Then I just setup Putty to forward
> port 5900 to 127.0.0.0:5901, make an ssh connection to my FreeBSD server, run
> UltraVNC on my Windows box and connect to localhost.
> 

Thanks for your reply!  I have been told VNC is a good way to go as 
well, but some have mentioned some performance issues.  What have you 
found?  It works liveably well?

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