[Cialug] Real VNC

[Kenneth Ristau]

Theron Conrey wrote:
> James Shoemaker wrote:
> 
>>
>>     I can't find much use for VNC, for remote linux work I use ssh and 
>> tunneled X and for remote windows work I have found that Remote 
>> Desktop works better.
>>
>> James
>>
> No use and you're tunneling X?!?!?!? How about tunneling the vnc 
> session.........

I agree, tunneling VNC kicks the hindquaters of tunneling X.  Much, much 
faster.  The difference in speed might be negilgible over a fast network 
connection (gigabit or full duplex 100 mbit), but as network speed or 
available bandwidth decreases, VNC pulls ahead of X.

To answer the earlier question about who uses VNC and how often.  Me too 
and daily.  I use it at home to connect the kitchen's laptop to the fast 
machine upstairs or my laptop upstairs (both over 802.11b).  I use it to 
connect over an ssh tunnel from work to home every now and again. I use 
it to remotely manage servers and workstations that don't have Remote 
Desktop, and even some that do but have Terminal Services disabled.

Wandering even farther off-topic, I have used a batch script on Windows 
boxen called FastPush from the following URL with quite a bit of success:

http://www.darkage.co.uk

It basically "pushes" and launches a VNC server on a machine that was 
previously VNC-less.  Works with multiple flavors of VNC, but only comes 
with 4 or 5.  He does provide directory structure and logic for the 
other flavors, you just have to drop the bin's into the right folders.

later,
kristau