Bringing my Office Unix/Xwindows desktop to my home machine (WinXP Pro) has always been very efficient with VNC, but using VNC to bring my office WinXP desktop to my home machine has always been very sluggish and not efficient enough to use on a regular basis.
But now I just tried WinXP's remote desktop feature and discovered that it works great. It is much faster than VNC, and it doesn't have any of the occassional redraw problems that VNC has. Apparently it works just fine tunneling through a VPN connection. I think the reason for the performance difference is that the remote desktop service is built into Windows and has access to secret hooks that other applications (VNC) don't have access to. And then of course there is the fact that the remote desktop feature is able to disable the windows server on the physical screen (on the server machine) so double redraws are eliminated. I don't think any amount of improvement to VNC's compression methods can bring VNC up to the same performance level as WinXP's remote desktop service. Of course I am only talking about the case when both the server and the client are WinXP machines. I think the only way to improve the performance of the VNC server running on windows is to find a way to do what the remote desktop is doing, namely find a way to disable the screen server when a remote client connects. But I doubt that the necessary windows-hooks are exposed to applications. Freddy _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
