David Talkington wrote:
>
> VNC is righteously cool, but I've found it to be hopelessly sloggish
> when viewing a Windows desktop on a remote client, even on a
> LAN. Viewing a Unix desktop on any client seems to work much better.
> I've tried tinkering with color depth as per the FAQs and stuff, but
> nothing helps. Anyone else have experience with this?
We're using it at work to control some servers across town. This is
Windows to Windows, and it works passably. I also use it at home to
control the Windows machine here so I don't have to turn my chair to use
Quicken. (I do have VMWare, but it's overkill when I've got a Windows
machine already -- I save VMWare for experiments.)
> Motion video also doesn't work remotely; you get updates a quadrant at
> a time, if at all. But maybe that's asking too much ...
I wouldn't expect VNC to work well with any kind of multimedia.
If you have matching colordepths, and you're not polling the whole screen,
performance is sufficient for system administration and routine apps.
But even then, some things don't refresh right. It's great and it has its
uses, but it's not the end-all-be-all of remote computing. Either a local
X server or Windows NT Terminal Edition are both much faster.
-W-
Damn John Whorfin, and the horse he rode in on.
-- John Bigboote
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