Re: tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-19 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 01:26, Carl wrote: > Well, they are different companies arent' they? There may be legal issues. > Also, isn't RealVNC open source? That's probably TightVNC's starting point. What do you mean? Both pieces of software are licensed under the GPL, so they are legally compatible

Re: tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-19 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 01:26, Carl wrote: > > How does TightVNC compare to RealVNC when dialing up, say via a 56k line? > > I have no real numbers to compare (I assume that the only measurable > quantity is the amount of data transferred with a particular encoding > for a particular screen), but t

Separate Hard Disks

2003-01-19 Thread Joe Warner
Hi, Is it possible to run VNC on separate hard disks on the same machine? I have WIN98 on one hard disk and FreeBSD on another, on the same PC. I would be great if I could access my WIN98 drive from FreeBSD using VNC. BTW - I searched and searched for related information and couldn't find anyt

Re: Separate Hard Disks

2003-01-19 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: "Joe Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > Is it possible to run VNC on separate hard disks on the same machine? > > I have WIN98 on one hard disk and FreeBSD on another, on the same PC. > > I would be great if I could access my WIN98 drive from FreeBSD using VN

Re: tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-19 Thread Tony
Id not say 'ego', more like differences in opinion on VNC's direction in life.. Each flavor has its purpose, combining them woiuld quickly lead to bloat and veer far away from its orginal purpose: a *simple*, small, multi-platform remote control. >- Original Message - >From: "Jerry McBrid

Fw: tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-19 Thread Carl
James sent me this. I think it was meant for the group. If it was not, it is still informative. I'm putting his comment immetiately below. BTW, what I wrote was this: "How does TightVNC compare to RealVNC when dialing up, say via a 56k line?" I happen to use RealVNC. I tried TightVNC but did n

Re: tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-19 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:55, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote: > You have missed out the encoding that VNC would actually use over a 56K > line - ZRLE. ZRLE performs at least as well as Tight over slow > connections, and was introduced in VNC 3.3.4, which is why there's been > no need to add the Tig

Securing VNC by using a firewall/router and SSH

2003-01-19 Thread Bruce Douglas
hi... in researching how to properly secure the VNC Server, it appears that the basic question comes down to how one can configure a SSH client application appropriately. (If I open up the firewall.. I can easily connect to the VNC Server.) In the following diagram, the client is outside the fire

Re: Securing VNC by using a firewall/router and SSH

2003-01-19 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > I believe it should be possible. However, when I've tried to set up the > PuTTY client application, it appears that I have something configured > incorrectly. (I have the latest version of the Windows PuTTY) > > Under

local users desktop

2003-01-19 Thread Julian Markin
Hi, Im looking at using vnc for remote troubleshooting/training etc. I am keen to find out if, with vnc or another package if anyone knows of it, you can view the local users desktop rather than getting a fresh one of your own. Thanks in advance Julian ___

Re: local users desktop

2003-01-19 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: "Julian Markin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > Im looking at using vnc for remote troubleshooting/training etc. I am keen > to find out if, with vnc or another package if anyone knows of it, you can > view the local users desktop rather than getting a fresh one of

Re: local users desktop

2003-01-19 Thread Bill Cassady
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Julian Markin wrote: > Im looking at using vnc for remote troubleshooting/training etc. I am keen > to find out if, with vnc or another package if anyone knows of it, you can > view the local users desktop rather than getting a fresh one of your own. My experience wuth defa

RE: Linksys Routers..Port Forwarding...Putty.. VNC!!

2003-01-19 Thread Eugene Beckett
SPI is not supported by Linksys and you will a note on their site if you look for it HARD. All forwarding is disabled if SPI is enabled, the Firewall functionality is still present except for the port you are forwarding to the inside. eugene ___ VNC-Li

RE: Securing VNC by using a firewall/router and SSH

2003-01-19 Thread Bruce Douglas
William... thanks for the input... your suggestions worked... which implies that the putty application more or less needs to know the internal ip/port prior to running... not sure i want to expose this to my end user.. but for now.. should be ok i may consider creating my own version of putty

VNC on Orange / Microsoft SPV Smartphone 2002

2003-01-19 Thread Houston, Craig
Hi there, Does anybody know if there is a binary version on VNC that will run on Windows CE using the ARM processors for the new range of smartphones that are starting to appear on the market? I have tried compiling the source using MS eMbeded Visual Tools, but to be honest I don't really know t