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Old 7th November 2011
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Originally Posted by mayuka View Post
Oh this is really sad. It's not about ssvnc. I need the vncserver that can be started on a machine without monitor.

x11vnc is quite complicated to run on a headless (monitor less) server. Maybe Xvfb is a solution. I don't know. Nobody tried this before?

I'll try to get tigervnc to compile. Hopefully it isn't not too complicated.
This is an interesting problem. TightVNC was removed due to security reasons but I am not aware how difficult is to run x11vnc in your particular set up. Besides TightVNC and TigerVNC and already mentioned x11VNC I am aware of UltraVNC and proprietary RealVNC. Can you try to compile UltraVNC maybe?

You can always do
Code:
ssh -Y username@yourserver.domain.name
but you will need a serious bandwidth do real work with it.

I personally dropped VNC in favor of NX X protocol with is compression wrapper around ssh. It works amazingly fast comparing to VNC let alone to ssh -Y The problem is that proprietary version of NX server is not running on OpenBSD but that is not problem for me since I only use to connect to my cluster which runs RedHat Linux. There is a free version of the NX server FreeNX which you should be able to compile on OpenBSD. Google also has an unfinished version.

OpenNX open source NX client is ported to OpenBSD and works like a charm.

Last edited by Oko; 7th November 2011 at 05:28 PM.
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