I'm playing around with the KDE desktop sharing feature and can't seem to get it working. I'm running KDE 3.1.2 and SuSE 8.2. I'm also using the SuSE Firewall....on another machine. Any thoughts? Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
My computer is on a private IP and my server, which is also the firewall, has 2 NICs. The Desktop Sharing tries to attach itself to the public nic rather than the private. This might be part of my problem. ????? If so, how would I change it? Tom On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:15, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm playing around with the KDE desktop sharing feature and can't seem to get it working. I'm running KDE 3.1.2 and SuSE 8.2. I'm also using the SuSE Firewall....on another machine.
Any thoughts?
Tom
-- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Oh, that is a bit tricky. I only have one NIC active. When you issue the invitation can you change the IP address to the LAN NIC. I tried it here and I can not. I don't see anything in the control center to change it. You got me, how can you change it? On Monday 21 July 2003 12:26 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
My computer is on a private IP and my server, which is also the firewall, has 2 NICs. The Desktop Sharing tries to attach itself to the public nic rather than the private. This might be part of my problem. ?????
If so, how would I change it?
Tom
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:26, Tom Nielsen wrote:
My computer is on a private IP and my server, which is also the firewall, has 2 NICs. The Desktop Sharing tries to attach itself to the public nic rather than the private. This might be part of my problem. ?????
Are you sure about that? When I launch it, it attaches to "all available NICs"
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:28, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:26, Tom Nielsen wrote:
My computer is on a private IP and my server, which is also the firewall, has 2 NICs. The Desktop Sharing tries to attach itself to the public nic rather than the private. This might be part of my problem. ?????
Are you sure about that? When I launch it, it attaches to "all available NICs"
Nope, not sure at all. I just tried it and it worked fine. The problem was I had to be on the other side (I had to vnc already) so that I could accept the invitation. Isn't there another way so I don't have to accept an invitation? Also - what's the difference between using vnc and using desktop sharing? Thanks. -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:16, Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:28, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:26, Tom Nielsen wrote:
My computer is on a private IP and my server, which is also the firewall, has 2 NICs. The Desktop Sharing tries to attach itself to the public nic rather than the private. This might be part of my problem. ?????
Are you sure about that? When I launch it, it attaches to "all available NICs"
Nope, not sure at all. I just tried it and it worked fine. The problem was I had to be on the other side (I had to vnc already) so that I could accept the invitation.
Isn't there another way so I don't have to accept an invitation?
Control center -> internet -> desktop sharing -> allow uninvited connections. But be sure you protect it with a firewall.
Also - what's the difference between using vnc and using desktop sharing?
Not much, desktop sharing *is* vnc, it's just integrated into kde so you get to use kded to listen for incoming connections instead of vncserver. Apart from that it's pretty much the same as the vnc server for the primary desktop with the weird name that I don't recall right at this moment
You will need to open up ports in 5900 range to share your desktop. http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/ http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q53 I haven't had any problems running between SuSE 8.2 and Debian Sid behind a firewall without local firewalls on the PCs. Do you get to the password prompt or does the vnc client fail to find the server on the other PC? On Monday 21 July 2003 12:15 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm playing around with the KDE desktop sharing feature and can't seem to get it working. I'm running KDE 3.1.2 and SuSE 8.2. I'm also using the SuSE Firewall....on another machine.
Any thoughts?
Tom
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