Where is the Mac client for TighVNC? I just can find the UNIX, Windows
and java ones.



On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:57, James Sparenberg wrote:
> Having used VNC almost daily for a year I can offer the following.  TightVNC is the 
>least bandwidth intensive.  Available at tightvnc.com  There are clients for Windows, 
>Linux, (linux builds on FreeBSD) and Mac.  Viewing Linux on windows is better than 
>the other way around.  Since Windows doesn't multitask everyone winds up with the 
>same desktop, and you tend to crash windows (what a suprise) fairly easy.  However if 
>you are on windows and viewing linux it rocks.  It's useable down to a 56k connection 
>but it feels a lot like a 486 at 56k.  Use a window manager like ice or fvvm for the 
>best results. KDE and Gnome are tooooooo graphicaly intesive for remote viewing. 
>However the apps from kde and gnome work well under ice or fvvm.  If you go regular 
>VNC they even have a client for CE.  It works as a viewer but its not the fastest 
>thing in the world.
> 
> James
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:07:09 -0700
> "Vincent Danen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri Jan 18, 2002 at 09:20:28PM -0700, Lee Roberts wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to make that work with my Win2K machine. I'm
> > > using ttsh on the Win2K PC to establish an SSH connection with the Linux
> > > machine. There's an option in ttssh for running remote X apps on the local
> > > X server but there doesn't appear to be a listing for an X server in the
> > > Win2K services. I suppose that there is an X app for Win2K somewhere?
> > 
> > You need to be running an X server on your Windows machine and no,
> > Win2k does not come with one.
> > 
> > There are some commercial X servers for Windows, but I can't really
> > remember which are good and which aren't... it's been a while since I
> > looked (probably over a year).  When I last did, there were no free X
> > servers for Windows.
> > 
> > What you probably need is to setup VNC... I know that you can get
> > Windows showing up on your Linux box this way, but not sure about vice
> > versa (I think it will work... I remember turning on and off the
> > wife's xmms when I played with it before, but whether I was on the
> > Windows machine or my Linux machine I don't recall).
> > 
> > FYI (and this is more for others reading as I don't think this matters
> > much to you in particular), I just got an X server running on
> > MacOS/X... now all I need is to find an ssh client for MacOS/X and I
> > can run xchat on it by tunneling it from my Linux box (wOOp!).
> > 
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> > Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 9 days 11 hours 43 minutes.
> > 
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