> In answer to this question, I thought it was worth giving > comments on my > own experiences of VNCing on the Mac, so this is quite long...
Thanks for typing all this out for me... > > Hi all, I'm trying to set up some things using vnc in a > mixed win/mac > > environment. Win is not a problem for me, but I know little > about the > > Mac side of vnc. Can anyone tell me what to use/do there? > > I assume you want to control the Mac remotely, so you need a Mac VNC > server...? Indeed, and a viewer as well. > The first question to ask is which OS version you are using: > Classic or OS X? Like the joke goes: Yes. (meaning both ;-) > If you are using OSX then you need OSXVnc: > http://stevek.com/VNC/OSXVnc2.html thanks for the link, the osxvnc domain led me nowhere... > sharing of the main screen. -Pity. Also, the cursor is not > sent from the > server (not a problem with a decent connection, but seeing the remote > cursor can be a useful indicator of what's happening under a slower > connection). That does suck. But I'll live ;-) > If you are using Classic Mac OS then the best server is ChromiVNC: > http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ > It does suffer a couple of known problems (such as dragging a Finder > icon, or some other draggable item, can cause a lock-up which > has to be > freed at the Mac end by jogging the physical mouse - my own > vncPatches68k gets around that though -but I 'lost' my website, so I > need to get that sorted out before it's available again), and > it has the > occasional incompatibility with certain software (I found working > remotely in Think Pascal would eventually crash it, and using Eudora > remotely for a period of time, half an hour, say, also occasionally > causes a freeze). That is not good news... Anythign is better than nothing, but freezing the mac is not a good thing. Is this still developed by someone or is this going to stay as it is now, for the bugs etc? > The old 'official' AT&T VNC server for Mac (Classic) is very buggy, > often causing complete system-freeze/crash -it does some rather > 'naughty' things at interrupt time, so it's not very surprising... > However, some have found it just about works, as long as they > don't do > too much serious work remotely through to the Mac. Not for me then... > The main thing to watch out for in VNCThing is a bug in one of the > encodings (RRE) -make sure you always deselect this in the encoding > options. This bug causes it to lose connection regularly with > ChromiVNC Hmm, that's not too good then, since you say that is the best server. then again, a dropped connection, oh well... > For OSX, another viewer is VNCDimension (www.mdimension.com). I find [..] > latest version (0.7) -it seems to not keep up too well with mouse > tracking, etc. I'm not sure if the problem is to do with the Hmm, this might make it a little frustrating to work with perhaps... > Finally, OSX is basically a FreeBSD-based OS (i.e. unix, > effectively), > so the unix VNC viewer will compile and work fine under X11 > on Mac OSX. Hmm, I'll see if the mac's that need it are set up that way, but I doubt it. > Anyway, I hope that proves to be a useful overview! It certainly did, many thanks! Arnt _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
