We installed a new SuSE 8.2 machine as a web server, and enabled the remote desktop sharing feature to enable us to administer the machine remotely, graphically. When we open up a VNC session on a remote Windows machine, none of the Microsoft fonts we installed seem to be available on the SuSE machine. Checking in Control Center, the Microsoft fonts are indeed installed (and logging in at the SuSE machine's console also has the screen rendering the Microsoft fonts just fine). But no joy when connecting remotely. Our hope is that if we can get the Microsoft fonts to be available over a remote connection to a Windows machine, all text in the VNC session will render more clearly, with less jaggies, since it's the Windows machine doing the rendering. Thanks, Mark P.S. For those with a nose for security, please don't worry about us sending session information over the Internet in clear text. We use a SSH client (Putty) on the remote Windows machine to set up a "local forward". This enables us to have the VNC viewer connect to a display on the Windows workstation (X rendered locally), with all traffic between the SuSE web server and the remote Windows workstation taking place in an encrypted tunnel on the SuSE machine's port 22. All 59xx and 58xx ports on the SuSE machine are blocked by the firewall (actually all ports other than 80, 22 and the ntp ports are blocked by the firewall...). L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com
The 03.08.28 at 14:27, L. Mark Stone wrote:
We installed a new SuSE 8.2 machine as a web server, and enabled the remote desktop sharing feature to enable us to administer the machine remotely, graphically.
You can use administration tools like yast without doing that...
logging in at the SuSE machine's console also has the screen rendering the Microsoft fonts just fine). But no joy when connecting remotely. Our hope is
I have no experience with that; but my guess is that is a "local" problem, not the remote linux machine. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos, Thanks for your reply; see my comments below. Mark <snip> | |> We installed a new SuSE 8.2 machine as a web server, and enabled the |> remote desktop sharing feature to enable us to administer |the machine |> remotely, graphically. | |You can use administration tools like YaST without doing that... And we do from time to time. But it's much easier to do many file system tasks from the GUI (and I'm old enough to remember when real servers didn't even come with video cards...) ;-) | |> logging in at the SuSE machine's console also has the screen rendering |> the Microsoft fonts just fine). But no joy when connecting remotely. |> Our hope is | |I have no experience with that; but my guess is that is a |"local" problem, not the remote Linux machine. Well, then I didn't make myself clear... I agree that the rendering quality has to do with the local Windows machine, but the fact that I can't choose MS fonts in Control Center when viewing an exported X session running KDE in a VNC window presumably is entirely a function of the remote Linux machine. Unless I've missed something??? Best regards, Mark L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com
The 03.09.03 at 08:55, L. Mark Stone wrote:
Well, then I didn't make myself clear... I agree that the rendering quality has to do with the local Windows machine, but the fact that I can't choose MS fonts in Control Center when viewing an exported X session running KDE in a VNC window presumably is entirely a function of the remote Linux machine. Unless I've missed something???
I might be wrong, because i don't know how things are split beetween server and client, and i haven't tried your setup (I only exported sessions using exceed two years ago). But I think that font rendering should be done completely on the local side to mimimize network use. The remote just says it want's to display a letter or string, using such font, and at such coordinates, and the local machine does it. But I can be mistaken. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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