Erwann Chenede ??: > Hi Steven, > > Steven Zhang wrote: > >> Why realVNC is better. >> 1, The realVNC can be started by telnet. Yes, vino can also do this >> if you telnet from linux or solaris, but if you telnet from windows, >> you can not start vino. > > > You can. > telnet to the machine as a given user and (assuming the user is logged > in) set the gconf key /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled to true. > >> 2, When vino run, you can not find a tray icon, user will be confused >> how to stop it.(We can also make this feature for vino, we are >> evaluating this feature.) > > > Vino is started via a capplet as most gnome desktop services and afaik > realVNC doesn't provide a tray icon in gnome either (nor any desktop > integration). So why does it make realVNC better ? > >> 3, The most important, vino uses VNC protocol, this protocol is come >> from VNC, and there are lot of source code in vino are come from VNC. >> So, since we are using VNC protocol, why not we just use vnc-server? > > > Because with vnc-server doesn't have the capability to dynamically > hook into an already running desktop session. > This is a must have feature for remote administration scenario. > Vino was implemented for that. vino is a vnc server. > > [...] > >>> >>> Vino was developed by Sun specifically for the gnome desktop. It is >>> fully integrated directly into >>> gnome. >> >> >> Yes, I think the owner left Sun. > > > Yes, Mark left Sun for redhat 3 years ago (He worked with us in the > desktop group) > > [...] > >> Can you give me more clear info about this? I hope to work on this >> issue. > > > As far as I recall, the problem for solaris is that vino is using > gnutls http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ as oppose to the equivalent > library for solaris. > >> After using vino, I am thinking about use ssh for vino(Still not >> scucceed). Do you mean make vino use PAM or just use the >> authentication libs? > > > I believe using PAM is an ARC requirement for the integration of vino > in solaris. > > If you want more details about vino have a look at Sun's LSARC case > 2004/164 > I have already read it, and start to think about using PAM for vino. I am a new comer for PAM, but I believe I can do it. Today, we scuccessfully make vino work with ssh. The only issue is we can not force the vnc-viewer to connect via ssh. I believe if we use PAM, then we can add some parameter for vino to force ssh connection.
Thanks. -Steven > HTH, > > Erwann >
