[LUAU] VNC for Mac OSx Lion?

2011-09-21 Thread Brian Chee
Has anyone found a decent VNC client for OSx Lion yet? I'm hoping to avoid having to blow $50 on RealVNC and was hoping someone has found a decent free version. /brian chee -- University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL)

Re: [LUAU] VNC for Mac OSx Lion?

2011-09-21 Thread Jeff Mings
Hi Brian! There is a new project called Chicken, that is based off of the abandoned Chicken of The VNC, that hasn't been update for about 6 years. Chicken works fairly well, and, more importantly, is active. Find it on sourceforge. Jollysfastvnc is probably the best VNC client, but

Re: [LUAU] VNC for Mac OSx Lion?

2011-09-21 Thread Brian Chee
Thanks...wanted a free VNC client to test a VM of CentOS 5.7 under Hyper-Vif CLI only it's easy peezy...but there are two pieces of integration software if you want full performance with synthetic NICs and what looks like full HID support. All the pieces are free, but when I just did an update

[LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...

2011-09-21 Thread Brian Chee
Since this installation needs graphics, and we'd like to avoid needing to purchase X11 servers for all the students (VNC is at least free) AND the server is accessed through an SSL-VPN so I don't have to teach the students how to SSH tunnel at this time...drum roll please... Does anyone know of a

Re: [LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...

2011-09-21 Thread Jason Axelson
In summary, I'd like to use VNC to connect to a server, prompt the user for their Linux username and password (Centos 5.7) and then get their appropriate desktop. Basically as if they're sitting at the physical machine. Got suggestions? I found this one specifically about SUSE (

Re: [LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...

2011-09-21 Thread Brian Chee
That's exactly what I want...now if I can only get RDP (I'm using CORD) to connectI just get a black screen...am reading the FAQ's now to see if I missed something. /brian chee On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jason Axelson bostonvaul...@gmail.comwrote: In summary, I'd like to use VNC to

Re: [LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...

2011-09-21 Thread Brian Chee
Yup...actually 99%, the only thing I have to fuss around with is the Hyper-V integration services...something is broken there since I can't issue a shutdown (ACPI style) from the Hyper-V console...which is a bad thing for autoshutdown in case of power failures, etc... /brian On Wed, Sep 21,