On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Gary Stainburn wrote:
Hi Derek, all, You're confusing me now. What do you mean by being able to run apps locally and remotely? I have a number of windows users who use VNCview to access a Linux box connecting to larry:50 which then gives them a kdm logon. What is the difference (apart from the actual underlying network protocol) between that and me connecting using X-Win32 from one of my windows boxes?
X-Win32 costs money or keeps nagging you to pay for it! ;-) Seriously, you'd be much better off running a 'proper' X server (e.g. Cygwin/XFree86) than VNC. VNC is designed for extremely thin devices (e.g. palmtop devices, washing machine control panels etc.) and introduces a very unnecessary extra server processing and bandwidth load when used in place of the X protocol. Since you're not using the special features of VNC (e.g. the ability to move displays while retaining state) you would be better off with straightforward X Windows. Michael