[vtkusers] Connecting to a server.

[David E DeMarle]

The question should have been sent to the ParaView mailing list.

It means that the server you've connected to doesn't have a working
openGL setup, so ParaView is shipping all the polygons back to your
client to render. This is OK until the renderable geometry is too
large for your local machine to render quickly. As the second message
implies, it also means that paraview's pixel space surface selection
modes won't work because, since the rendering isn't done remotely,
ParaView can't tell which processor owns the data behind each pixel.

If you need server side rendering, see the offscreen parallel
rendering sections in the paraview guide for information about how to
set the server up to allow remote rendering.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Carla Ubbink <carlau at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I made a tunneling connection to a server according to the instructions on: "Reverse connection and port forwarding" on the paraview wiki.
> However, I am unable to render any saved data. I am able to apply sources and render a simple sphere.
>
> I get the following error when I connect: "Display is not accessible on the server side. Remote rendering will be disabled."
> And when I click in the view: 'Cannot make selections since remote rendering is not available."
>
> Does anyone know what causes this error? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Carla
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