>From: 389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Daniel Maher [dma+389users at witbe.net] >Sent: 13 July 2010 11:40 >To: 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org >Subject: Re: Problems with running Management and Directory Consoles on remote servers > >On 07/13/2010 12:21 PM, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote: >> Hi >> We are experiencing problems in our test environment with running or even just logging into the Management console when you run it on a remote server. >> The steps are: >> ssh -X<remote server> >> 389-console& >> wait ages for splash screen to show >> login dialog box eventually appears (>2 min) but empty no controls is drawn its just the outline >> >> Enabling ssh compression makes very little difference >> >> We have resorted to running 389-console on a local box and the connecting to the remote server with port forwarding trickery and alias localhost. > >Hello, > >We noticed exactly the same thing in our environment (also 389 1.2.5 on >CentOS 5.5). Likewise, we now ssh -X to a local machine and run the >console from there, instead of from the remote site. At least glad we are not going crazy... might be worth while raising as a defect if more people can confirm behaviour or if we can't get to the bottom of the issue. >We chalked it up to latency in running a remote X session from a distant >location, and since we can run the console locally, we never bothered to >do any further research. Now that we're not the only ones to have >experienced this behaviour, i wonder if there's not something more to it >than simple "slow Internet"... > >Could you provide any further details about the state of the network(s) >between your local and remote sites ? VPN ? > The problem seems to occur when going via vpn... whether this is related to the vpn or just related to increase latency is difficult to say. It can take up to two minutes for the login dialog box to be drawn when logging into a box using ssh -X <remote host> without compression via vpn. However even though the login box eventually show up we are not able to click on any of the edit boxes to enter login information. The only sign that there is life, is the flash screen redrawing itself every so often. Regards ________________________________________________________________________ In order to protect our email recipients, Betfair Group use SkyScan from MessageLabs to scan all Incoming and Outgoing mail for viruses. ________________________________________________________________________
