On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:18 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:16, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:43, James Sparenberg wrote: > > ... > > > > > I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only > > > inits to run level 3 ... then from work etc I can get into it no > > > problem. > > > > > > > > > PS rfbdrake and Remote Desktop Connection both provide access this way > > > ... and it's a heck of a lot less bandwidth hungry than normal X. > > > > ... > > > > ooh boy, a religious war! heh-heh :-) Actually VNC does use less > > bandwidth, but X is still more responsive for me, even over relatively > > low-bandwidth high-latency links, because X isn't doing the screen > > scrape and poll-my-mouse crud. Now if you're using a pixmapped theme and > > the pixmaps are all on the other end of a modem... > > Of course a religious war. Whatdya expect form an old alterboy! > *grin*. The reasons you don't like VNC is why IMHO MDK had the wisdom > to switch to tightVNC. It doesn't do the poll-my-mouse crud (The > concept is the mouse is on the local box why draw it twice. So they use > a 1x1px spot on the screen at the tip of your local mouse. I've used it > over a 56k connection with iceWM as the wm and it was a bit clunky but > faster than pcNowhere on Broadband and screen updates paints and lauches > where much faster. > > James
I tunnel tightVNC through an SSH connection. It's slow on a 56K connection but the nice thing is that it makes it much tougher for someone else to connect to your box from the internet (if you have a firewall blocking the VNC ports). I've heard that VPN is a better solution but I haven't had time to play with it. That's my paranoid 2 cents worth.
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