Hi Bernhard,

The two dialogs for entering user name and password are for the demonstration
application that comes with the Seaside distribution. You can enter anything
you like for these, I usually just enter 'admin' and 'password' to get through
the dialogs.

The third dialog concerning 'data.obj does not exist' is something
that I do not recognize. I don't see it on Linux so I am guessing
that it may be related to the operating system. I don't have a Mac,
but maybe someone else could try it to confirm?

I'm afraid that there is a fair amount of Linux-specific stuff that
has crept into the the SqueakSource code base over time. Most likely
there is something in the SqueakSource initialization code is trying
to find a serialized copy of the repository, but I can't say why
you are hitting that code path on macOS.

Dave


On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 07:36:57PM +0000, Bernhard Pieber wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Thanks for providing the instructions. I just tried them on Squeak6.1alpha-22300-64bit on macOS 12.6.1.
> 
> When loading update.sscom-dtl.5.mcm two modal dialogs are shown:
> 
> I entered admin and password. Then I get this:
> 
> Any idea what I might be missing?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
> 
> > Am 03.12.2022 um 22:03 schrieb David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> >
> > During a recent board discussion, Tim asked about experiences in using VNC
> > to control server images. There are various ways to do this, but here is how
> > it is done for the https://squeaksource.com server. The easiest way to see
> > how it works is to try it out on your own computer, so here is what to do:
> >
> > - Start with a fresh Squeak image.
> > - Open a Monticello Browser, and add repository http://source.squeak.org/ss.
> > - Open the repository and navigate to category update.sscom.
> > - Select update.sscom-dtl.5.mcm and load it.
> >
> > When loading is complete, you will see a notifier saying that SqueakSource
> > is running on port 8888, as well as a pinnable morph for controlling the
> > RFBServer (for VNC connections).
> >
> > Pin the RFB control morph so that it stays active. If you close it by
> > accident, do "RFBServer menu openInWorld" to get it back.
> >
> > Save the image once and restart it to make sure the startup initialization
> > is working.
> >
> > You can now open a web browser on http://localhost:8888 to connect to
> > the SqueakSource web interface. Only one account will be present in the
> > repository, this is your administrative user with user name 'admin' and
> > password 'password'. Changing that password (from the web interface) is
> > a good idea.
> >
> > The following will work only on Unix/Linux/OSX:
> >
> > In the RFBServer menu, in the passwords menu, select "allow empty passwords"
> >
> > In a terminal window (outside of Squeak), identify the pid of the Squeak VM
> > process (pgrep -l squeak).
> >
> > From the terminal, send a SIGUSR2 signal to the VM process. If the Squeak
> > VM pid is 1234, then the command is "kill -SIGUSR2 1234".
> >
> > Back in the Squeak image, you will see the VNC control change from
> > "RFBServer (stopped)" to "RFBServer :1" to indicate that it is accepting
> > VNC connections on display number 1. It will stay in this state for the
> > next 60 seconds.
> >
> > From a VNC client program running on the local machine, connect to
> > localhost:1, and you should have an active connection to the Squeak image.
> >
> > If you want to run your SqueakSource image on another server, run the
> > VM with -vm-display-null and use ssh port forwarding if needed to access
> > the VNC ports.
> >
> > For example, I have a unix account on the server that hosts squeaksource.com.
> > When I want to open the running SqueakSource image through VNC, I first
> > log in to the Linux server with a command like this (except that 10.1.2.3
> > is not the real address that we are using).
> >
> > $ ssh -L8888:localhost:8888 -L5900:localhost:5900 -L5901:localhost:5901 10.1.2.3
> >
> > Once logged in, I locate the Squeak VM process and send SIGUSR2 to it. I keep
> > the login session open to handle the port forwarding while I use VNC.
> >
> > Then back on my local computer, I open a VNC connection to localhost:1 to
> > get a connection to the running image. This step needs to be done within 60
> > seconds of the SIGUSR2, after than no further connections will be accepted.
> >
> > I used to use a VNC password (settable from the RFBServer menu) but I decided
> > that it was too much hassle given the 60 second connection enablement window,
> > which can only be started by someone with login access to the server and
> > sufficient privilege to send signals to the VM process.
> >
> > If you want to copy any of these ideas for use in some other Squeak server
> > application, the interesting bits are in class SSImageInit, especially
> > SSImageInit class>>enableFRBServerOnSigUsr2.
> >
> > I should note that RFBServer is written by Ian Piumarta. I don't recall
> > where it was originally hosted, but a copy of RFB-ikp.8.mcz is in our
> > source.squeak.org/ss repository, along with later updates that are currently
> > in use for SqueakSource.
> >
> > Dave
>