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
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