[ale] VNC

[Chris Fowler]

I've liked VNC and I've hated it.  Mostly due to speed.  It seems
that even on 100Base-T it is still slow.  TightVNC has helped out
a lot in fixing that problem.

Anyway, it really should just be used as emergency access.  Anything
else and the speed will get you.  What would be awesome is a RDP server
in KDE of Gnome.  RDP is a better protocol and is faster. But, speed can
also be affected with a poor implementation of RDP.

Using VNC constantly starts out as a novelty then gets old really fast.


On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 23:49, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, tom hawks wrote:
> > I was curious if anyone has used VNC very much and if
> > so, is it worth using?
> 
> We've been using it for years.  As long as you are not expecting
> instantaneous feedback and accept that you are shoving a whole screen over
> a "not-big-enough" pipe, it works great.
> 
> I have had some problems where an NT4 machine will get so hosed you can't
> connect, but since you can't login locally, I guess you can't blame VNC.
> 
> As someone else mentioned, TightVNC works a little better over slow
> connections.
> 
> If you are just needing to connect to remove Windows desktops, I'd
> recommend Terminal services if possible (or rdesktop under Linux) as it's
> faster.
> 
> The only annoyance about X and VNC is that you normally have to run Xvnc
> as a headless server - ie. you don't see anything on the local screen just
> the vnc session.  Makes sense on big iron, but if you want to be able to
> remotly access your desktop, it doesn'w work without some fighting (though
> supposedly the latest KDE has VNC built in.
> 
> Also, something that is very similar, but text only, is screen - which
> lets you disconnect from a terminal session and reconnect later.
> 
> VNC and screen are both great if your connection is slightly flakey and
> are worried about crashing during a long running process.  You just resume
> where you left off.  Makes it a lot easier to do remote work.
> 
> 	-Dan
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