On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rob Withers wrote:

> Ok, I am setting up.  Why disable "allow remote connections"?  I will run 
> this on a linux server and use RealVNC from my home machine.  Won't that 
> represent a remote connection to squeak's server?

The communication between the client and the server is not encrypted. So 
you'll want to tunnel your tcp connection through ssh to encrypt it. 
Therefore you don't need remote connections, because sshd will connect 
from localhost.
The best is to filter out all incoming packets to the rfb's tcp port from 
interfaces other than localhost with iptables or whatever you use.


Levente

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> Thanks,
> Rob
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> From: "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu>
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:05 PM
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Headless Linux squeak running max cpu
>
>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rob Withers wrote:
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>>> From: "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu>
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:42 PM
>>> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
>>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Headless Linux squeak running max cpu
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Install RFB (it's available on squeaksource). It will give full access to 
>>>> the image. If you never used it, here are a few tips:
>>>> After installing the package, in the world menu select open..., then 
>>>> RFB/VNC Server. In the connections submenu set an interactive password. 
>>>> It doesn't have to be strong, since you'll tunnel your connection through 
>>>> ssh. In the connections submenu disable "allow remote connections". In 
>>>> the performance submenu set "allow ZRLE encoding" and disable "conserve 
>>>> memory". Then start your server. Note that the tcp port is display number 
>>>> + 5900. So if you want your server to listen on 5901, then select display 
>>>> number 1.
>>>> 
>>>> Squeak's RFB implementation is a bit picky, it won't accept connections 
>>>> with certain client settings. For example it doesn't support other 
>>>> display bitdepth than the image's depth. So if you're using RealVNC as a 
>>>> client, then set the preferred encoding to ZRLE and select Full color 
>>>> (your image probably uses 32-bits as depth). And make sure you turn off 
>>>> the "Render cursor locally" option.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What does RFB stand for?  I intend to check this out.
>> 
>> Remote Frame Buffer. See 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing and 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_protocol .
>> 
>> 
>> Levente
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rob
>>> 
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