That's nothing, The other day I was testing the ports I opened at home to = VNC=20 in, so I rdestopped (is that a word) the terminal server at work using=20 VNCviewer to test the ports on my router. Well, the reason I knew I was=20 successful was when my desktops started nesting, and before I knew it I was= =20 watching my desktop on a remote desktop on a remote desktop on a remote=20 desktop on a remote desktop on a remote desktop on a remote desktop..... yo= u=20 get the idea? After I stopped laughing, I moved my mouse and watched as the pointer tried= to=20 update.... It didn't handle it to well. Have you ever seen a conniption? ;-= ) =20 I think that there might be a logic puzzle in there somewhere, but I wasn't= =20 about to fry my brain on it at that point, used my second workstation with= =20 rdesktop to kill my remote session and my desktop returned to sanity rather= =20 quickly (It's a fast machine, very fast) anthony On Thursday 29 January 2004 05:46 pm, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Kevin so: > > Interesting approach to keyboard/mouse sharing without expensive KVM > > hardware. A possible solution to the rat's nest of cables in my > > office. ;-) > > > > http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Be mindful of the complete lack of security here. Click the "Security" > > documentation for instructions on how to run this over ssh. That is the > > ONLY WAY I would use this, regardless of how "trusted" the network is. > > An internal mailing list at work was talking about synergy this > week. Someone pointed out the security stuff and said if ssh goes away it > would leave your desktop open to the world. That doesn't make sense to me, > but I haven't really looked at it. > > I set it up one place and confused the heck out of myself as I had screen > in screen on virtual desktops on a KVM with synergy as well. That was too > many layers and too many types of switching. It was really cool, though := ). > > ciao, > > der.hans