[olug] looking for an application

Jonathan Warren thechunk at cox.net
Fri Feb 28 14:48:32 UTC 2003


Also vnc project continues at www.realvnc.org

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:56:50PM -0600, Brian Wiese wrote:
> TightVNC is newer/better version of older standard VNC software.  I
> haven't used it personally, but have heard of many successes.
> 
> http://www.tightvnc.com/intro.html
> 
> This came up on a quick google, setting up a WinNT machine with vnc using
> cygwin, but I don't know why, there is a view for windows.
> 
> http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~luo/tightvnc_ssh.html
> http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
> 
> Something turned up on Linux Journal.
> 
> Issue 93: VNC, Transparently
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5499
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:00:29 -0600 (CST)
> "Jay Swackhamer" <Jay at RebootTheUser.com> wrote:
> 
> |You could setup a Vnc desktop on the remote machines,
> |that way you could dial-in and wouldnt have to transport the
> |X traffic across, just the updated sections of the screen. It would be
> |faster and since the desktop is on the remote, you could resume in the
> |event of a connection drop..... and you would be able to connect from any
> |machine without installing extra software..........
> |
> |
> |> When I was doing admin work on Sun/Solaris machines, I had an
> |> application on my home  pc called Exceed, by Hummingbird.  When
> |> on-call, I could dial in and pull back gui's.
> |>
> |> Now that I'm doing RH, I want to be able to do the same thing.  I am
> |> looking for a GNU application that I can put on my W2K machine, and
> |> when I dial into a customers system, I can pull back gui's.  Anyone
> |> have a suggestion for me?
> |>
> |> Thanks.
> |>
> |> Daryl Rose
> |> Unix Support Specialist
> |> drose at scantron.com
> |> 1-800-228-3628 x3061
> |>
> |>
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