Re: [9fans] NAT'ing a drawterm connection

[rgr@sdf.lonestar.org (Rob Ristroph)]

>>>>> "andrey" == andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> writes:
andrey>
andrey> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>> ps: i've had the setup pasted in the original mail work for a year already
>> with any significant issues. there's also a NAT rule for the other way
>> around, but more often I leave people logged in to mount the auth server's
>> /net, which is outside the 192 network.
>>
andrey>
andrey> err, i meant 'without'. it just works.
andrey>
andrey> import plan9 /net /net works better :)

Using your lines it works a bit better; you can get as far as the grey
rio screen but bringing up the pull down menu to make a new rc window
crashes something.  It was someone else on the other end, so I don't
know the exact error message.

Suppose in your "import" command that "plan9" isn't a machine running
Plan 9 but another computer that can see the plan9 computer.  Can you
forward some set of ports to make it work, or are you just out of luck
?

In the meantime, I decided to try to achieve the same ends at drawterm
using vnc.  Disregarding port forwarding, when the Plan 9 and Linux
machines are directly on the same subnet with no router between them,
I can vnc from Plan 9 to Linux but on Linux I cannot connect a
vncviewer to the Plan 9 server.

On Plan 9 I start the server with the command "vncs -v".

On Linux, xvncviewer prints this and exits (never asked for a
password, as it did when I connected from Plan 9 to Linux):

VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3)
xvncviewer: VNC server closed connection

On Plan 9, I see this:

192.168.1.18# vncs -v
192.168.1.18# geometry is 1024x768
server started on display :3
announced in /net/tcp/27
call in /net/tcp/28
[550] 192.168.1.1!4719 /net/tcp/28: handshake
server version: RFB 003.003
client version: RFB 003.003
[550] 192.168.1.1!4719 /net/tcp/28: auth
vncs: vncchal: auth server protocol botch

Nothing seems to be printed in /sys/log/auth.  If I run a vnc server
on linux, I have to set a password; have I not done the equivalent on
Plan 9 ?  How do I do it ?

Thanks in advance,

--Rob