Hi Jerry,
You're wrong about TighVNC. They do support file transfers...
--- "Jerome R. Westrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 13:58, Francesco wrote:
> >
> > ciao jerome io sto bene
> > thanks a will try on te mailing list o UltraVNC but waht is
> it the
> > tightvnc, kdevnc and other flavors, you mentioned?
> > francesco
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> There are a lot of diferent projects/people working on VNC.
>
> I'm not sure I can recite the history from memory, but....
>
> The original VNC was written by people at a company in
> England.
> They open sourced it.
> Over the years, they provided us with updates and
> improvements.
> But slowly (over years) the project stagnated, but the idea
> was
> and product where so good that serveral people jumped into the
>
> breach.
>
> Of theese split offs, there are 3 that I followed:
>
> TightVnc (www.tightvnc.com)
> eSvnc (defunct)
> ultravnc (www.ultravnc.com)
>
> Now since the original developement group had stagnated,
> TightVnc took over as defacto standard for a couple of years.
>
> Then the original programmers, started a new VNC project
> called RealVNC, and are now actively developing thier project
> again.
>
>
> As to the flavors:
> RealVnc - Both Unix and Windows, defacto standard.
> TightVnc- Both Unix and Windows, used to be mostly Unix
> standard,
> now actively improving thier windows side. These
> are
> the people who added Better compresions to improve
> performance.
>
> UltraVNC- Windows only flavor. Actively pussing the VNC in to
>
> the windows arena. They built special drivers for
> win
> machines to improve perfomance, and added many
> windows
> specific features.
>
>
>
> To the best of my knowledge, NO vnc version for unix allows
> file
> transfers, so I assume you have windows on both sides. If
> both are
> XP then the question arrises. why not use the WIndows Remote
> Desktop
> it is faster than VNC and allows you the share entire drives,
> and
> printers remotetly. But if have your reason for using VNC
> then
> Ultra is definatetly was the was to go for windows, But...
>
> ***Some one please correct me if I'm wrong***
>
> RealVnc is has/was/is impelmenting the UltraDrivers into the
> realVnc Packages?
>
>
> Hope this helps....
>
> Jerry
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