On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:15:57 -0500, Brian Chase wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>When I go from a Linux console to get a Windows screen, VNC is much >easier to set up, but haven't managed to get it to work over SSH, which >may be a hard requirement as if going over a WAN. > >The other direction, I prefer Cygwin/X and enabling XCMDP on the Linux >box for local access. But I'll be trying all options suggested in this >thread, thanks for all the contributions. VNC does have serious bandwidth limitations. I'd say that they are worse than, say, what made X11 4.x almost unusable on any pipe tighter than a T1 hard line (even a fast Token Ring would choke on it, that in the times when 10MB Ethernet was the domain of the NCSA... :-). And that's the reason why I suggested TightVNC, performance is acceptable with a 56K modem link, and it defaults to using SSH tunneling, so for practical purposes you obtain a cheap VPN. And now back to your original broadcast. -- Alejandro López-Valencia http://dradul.tripod.com/ [...] every educated man is a theologian, and he doesn't need faith to be one. (J.L. Borges) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
