[SLE] offside question - anyone using VNC with Linux?
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
From their webpage I quote
"VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. " and "No state is stored at the viewer. This means you can leave your desk, go to another machine, whether next door or several hundred miles away, reconnect to your desktop from there and finish the sentence you were typing. Even the cursor will be in the same place. With a PC X server, if your PC crashes or is restarted, all the remote applications will die. With VNC they go on running. It is small and simple. The Win32 viewer, for example, is about 150K in size and can be run directly from a floppy. There is no installation needed. It is truly platform-independent. A desktop running on a Linux machine may be displayed on a PC. Or a Solaris machine. Or any number of other architectures. The simplicity of the protocol makes it easy to port to new platforms. We have a Java viewer, which will run in any Java-capable browser. We have a Windows NT server, allowing you to view the desktop of a remote NT machine on any of these platforms using exactly the same viewer. (The NT server is not multi-user - see the documentation). And other people have ported VNC to a wide variety of other platforms. It is sharable. One desktop can be displayed and used by several viewers at once, allowing CSCW-style applications. It is free! You can download it, use it, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Public Licence. Both binaries and source code are available from the download page, along with a complete copy of this documentation. " url is "http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html" for those who want to follow. No, this is not an add for them, I just wanted to provide some basic data for comparison for those who don't want to link. regards scsijon -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
scsijon wrote:
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
From their webpage I quote
"VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. "
and
"No state is stored at the viewer. This means you can leave your desk, go to another machine, whether next door or several hundred miles away, reconnect to your desktop from there and finish the sentence you were typing. Even the cursor will be in the same place. With a PC X server, if your PC crashes or is restarted, all the remote applications will die. With VNC they go on running. It is small and simple. The Win32 viewer, for example, is about 150K in size and can be run directly from a floppy. There is no installation needed. It is truly platform-independent. A desktop running on a Linux machine may be displayed on a PC. Or a Solaris machine. Or any number of other architectures. The simplicity of the protocol makes it easy to port to new platforms. We have a Java viewer, which will run in any Java-capable browser. We have a Windows NT server, allowing you to view the desktop of a remote NT machine on any of these platforms using exactly the same viewer. (The NT server is not multi-user - see the documentation). And other people have ported VNC to a wide variety of other platforms. It is sharable. One desktop can be displayed and used by several viewers at once, allowing CSCW-style applications. It is free! You can download it, use it, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Public Licence. Both binaries and source code are available from the download page, along with a complete copy of this documentation. "
url is "http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html" for those who want to follow.
No, this is not an add for them, I just wanted to provide some basic data for comparison for those who don't want to link.
regards scsijon
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I use VNC, but not to connect to my box. I use it to connect to my workspot.net account. Ya, I know, it sounds redundant using linux over the internet through the Internet! It sounded like a cool idea a few months ago and I tried it. The main advantage is that I can edit my essays, school reports online, and then go to school and print. It's extremely stable for that purpose. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
scsijon wrote:
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
My mate set it up on the system at the TAFE college where we work. Seemed to run fine, no hiccups at all. We were running it off a SuSE 6.4 box, and linking in via W95 boxes. Looked great seeing E on a WinBox :) I know Pat reads this list, so he'll probably be in touch with you. -- Regards Don Hansford ECKYTECH COMPUTING Surfing the Net (without crashing) With SuSE 6.4 Linux (Thanx Linus!) "Microsoft democratised the computer market and served as a catalyst in making computers available to everybody. Later, however, they did as many revolutionaries do -- they became dictators. History has taught us the inevitable fate of dictators." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I use quite often, both on windows and unix platforms. enables me to remotely manage windows computers. check out www.workspot.com, sign up for a free linux desktop through your webbrowser via vnc On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote:
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
From their webpage I quote
"VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. "
and
"No state is stored at the viewer. This means you can leave your desk, go to another machine, whether next door or several hundred miles away, reconnect to your desktop from there and finish the sentence you were typing. Even the cursor will be in the same place. With a PC X server, if your PC crashes or is restarted, all the remote applications will die. With VNC they go on running. It is small and simple. The Win32 viewer, for example, is about 150K in size and can be run directly from a floppy. There is no installation needed. It is truly platform-independent. A desktop running on a Linux machine may be displayed on a PC. Or a Solaris machine. Or any number of other architectures. The simplicity of the protocol makes it easy to port to new platforms. We have a Java viewer, which will run in any Java-capable browser. We have a Windows NT server, allowing you to view the desktop of a remote NT machine on any of these platforms using exactly the same viewer. (The NT server is not multi-user - see the documentation). And other people have ported VNC to a wide variety of other platforms. It is sharable. One desktop can be displayed and used by several viewers at once, allowing CSCW-style applications. It is free! You can download it, use it, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Public Licence. Both binaries and source code are available from the download page, along with a complete copy of this documentation. "
url is "http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html" for those who want to follow.
No, this is not an add for them, I just wanted to provide some basic data for comparison for those who don't want to link.
regards scsijon
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VNC is pretty good and the client runs on a variety of platforms. BTW, there is also a version for the Nokia communicator internet phone. Nice:) On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Chad Whitten wrote:
I use quite often, both on windows and unix platforms. enables me to remotely manage windows computers. check out www.workspot.com, sign up for a free linux desktop through your webbrowser via vnc
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Hello, scsijon. I have used VNC for quite a while now, on both Windows and Linux. It works great. I tend to use it mainly from Linux to Windows machines rather than vice versa, and it has never caused any problems. Even the Java servlet works from within Netscape on Linux, although it is very slow compared to the native viewer. Running it on a LAN is brilliant. Performance is not that far from being sat at the machine. The trick is to make sure your target machines have simple backgrounds. I use plain black, with the machine name in white text on the screen somewhere. If you have a whole slew of fancy coloured backgrounds, it drags performance way down. I was recently able to connect from a machine in Cyprus using a modem connection (~46K at best) to connect back to my machine here in the US (256K DSL)so that I could check my e-mail. I had to be careful about the time of day I did this, since Cyprus does not have a fast connection to the outside world. It was sluggish, but functioned well enough to do the job, especially from 6000 miles away. For added security, you can tie VNC to SSH and secure the channel. It's a bit complicated, though. They do have docs for this on the VNC site. Bye for now, Stuart.
-----Original Message----- From: scsijon [mailto:scsijon@net2000.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 04:59 AM To: SuSE Linux English Subject: [SLE] offside question - anyone using VNC with Linux?
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
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scsijon wrote:
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
I tried to play with it recently at work, but from NT to NT. Works good, tried to capture an X-session from an experimental linux as well, but could not get more than a single xterm window. ;-( But I spend less than 10 minutes with that and didn't read much of the docs. My intention is to monitor a remote and unattended station gathering data. Other collegues use it for that purpose already. (Just heared it, the one that knows is on hollydays). Showed it to one of our NT sysops about easter. He testet it to monitor one machine. He confirms that it runs reliable and stable. (all on NT) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I use it currently with any combination of Linux, NT, 98, 95. It is rock-solid and easy to use. Most interesting for the cross-links Linux-Windows and vice-versa. But it must be complemented by file transfer services - I use a shareware ftp server and Windows Commander on the Windows side. On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:38:31PM +0200, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
scsijon wrote:
It looks interesting, just wondering if anyone is playing with it and Linux (RH, SuSE, Turbo) already. Someone in one of the sites I look after "wants to use it" according to his mail's initial message, I don't think it will provide what he really wants as results, but for once he has supplied a lead to a package I am interested in using, as long as it isn't going to cause trouble on what is a 98% stable configuration.
I tried to play with it recently at work, but from NT to NT. Works good, tried to capture an X-session from an experimental linux as well, but could not get more than a single xterm window. ;-( But I spend less than 10 minutes with that and didn't read much of the docs. My intention is to monitor a remote and unattended station gathering data. Other collegues use it for that purpose already. (Just heared it, the one that knows is on hollydays). Showed it to one of our NT sysops about easter. He testet it to monitor one machine. He confirms that it runs reliable and stable. (all on NT)
Juergen
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