On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:54:25 +0800, Bryan Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yikes! bat andami ata ng vnc variations... upon looking > up realvnc and tightvnc meron ding lumabas na ultravnc... > which will offer me better control/management?
use the command line if you can. vnc is slow on a lan, it's much slower over the pacific ocean (depends on your bandwidth though). on the other hand, if you're used to graphical tools and can't live without them, choose the one that's fastest and can work through an encrypted tunnel. for myself, if i have to do remote management of a server, i find that encrypted X sessions are *much* faster than vnc on a lan. not yet tested it over an international link, but it's probably the same. so if you can do that, that's probably the thing to do. just ssh over there and make sure that X forwarding is enabled, then just start the remote management tool (e.g., on mandrake, drakconf.real). since drakconf.real must run as root, you probably want to deny password auth and accept only certificate auth. and then make sure your cert on the local box has a strong passphrase :). > im planning to subscribe kase to a dedicated > server which is hosted abroad... am putting up a > web application and would pretty much like to do > some software installations and database > backups as my regular tasks... use the command line for that. there's no need for this stuff to be done graphically. after you've got the procedure set up, put it in cron so that it's done automatically. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.sni.ph [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Mene sakhet ur-seveh -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
