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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