Jerome, On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:46, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:17, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Robert,
On Friday 27 August 2004 14:35, Robert Rozman wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to have only vnc server to server X windows to remote vnc viewers without starting local X (to have only console).
How to do this ?
Does that make any sense? VNC is about so-called "desktop sharing" and is implicitly about GUIs. If all you need in the way of remote access is a CLI, then SSH is what you want.
It makes a lot of sense. If you only use the machine remote there is no need to run a FULL blown KDE on a screen that is turned of...
What he wants is the Linux version of terminal server, and VNC is a great way to do it...
One thing from Microsoft that really impressed me (and there aren't many such things) is the the protocol used in their Terminal Server. Even over a 56K modem, it's pretty responsive. In fact, it compares quite favorably with VNC between two systems with 6Mb / 600 Kb ADSL lines. The VNC experience I'm referring to was recent. Did I fail to configure VNC optimally? Because it was really too slow to be very useful. It was pretty clear from watching it run that the protocol was strictly a remote bitblt whereas it seemed that Terminal Server had an elaborate protocol for various special operations (buttons, text, other widgets, etc. -- it really seemed that the protocol was a remote version of the GUI portion of the win32 API, which of course can drastically cut the amount of data that must be transmitted to effect a given result on the display).
Conversely, if you want to run programs on your Linux box and interact with them from the keyboard, display and mouse of a remote site, then you want to invoke those programs on your box with the DISPLAY environment variable set to refer to the host where that keyboard, display and mouse exist and, of course, the necessary security setup in place on that X server.
That depends on the the effects the latenca has on the program. Some programs work great this way, some don't! Additionally, with remote vnc you can use KDE over small throughput lines.
Don't ask me about setting up non-local X service, however. I've never done it.
SuSE is prepared for this option...
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Thanks for that information. I don't know when I'll need it, but at least I'll know where to go to handle this situation should it arise.
Good Luck Jerry
Randall Schulz