I agree. Also, it wasn't just the implementation that was broken - the
special protocol had many problems as well. I would say that the design
was flawed from the start: If a file transfer feature should at all be
included in a VNC implementation, it should at least be based on some
existing protocol. Reinventing the wheel is always bad.
In ThinLinc, we are using NFSv3 and the "unfs3" server. Works great.
Best regards,
Peter Åstrand
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, DRC wrote:
We may have discussed it before the list was created, because I can't
seem to find the thread in the archives. However, IIRC, the reason was
mainly that the feature was broken and we didn't have anyone who cared
about it enough to fix it and maintain it. File transfer only exists in
the Windows VNC server, and one of the reasons why we forked the project
was so we would be able to focus more on the Unix VNC server. Don't get
me wrong-- we're still shipping WinVNC and VNCviewer. In particular, my
project still has a vested interest in the Windows TigerVNC code.
However, the Windows code may not receive as much attention from the
project as a whole.
Matt Campbell wrote:
Hello all:
I noticed that file transfer was removed from TigerVNC about a month
ago. Why was this done, and is there any plan to bring file transfer
back? If the decision has already been explained, I'd appreciate a link
to the original explanation.
Thanks,
Matt
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