8) Cross platform between three major OSs; might be especially important to anyone in a school environment with macintosh and wintel boxes. Client for macs is equally small in footprint and resources.
9) Did you mention FREE for all platforms? tlatshaw also a technology coordinator ScanMan wrote: > 1) Size. VNC fits on a floppy; NetMeeting is huge. > 2) Speed. NetMeeting takes forever to load. > 3) RAM footprint. VNC is small enough to be run continuously. NetMeeting > takes large amounts of RAM. > 4) Network Bandwidth. NetMeeting is sluggish even on low-latency > connections. Running several NetMeeting sessions will quickly bog down a > LAN. > 5) Can run from a Web browser. > 6) More flexible. > 7) More stable & reliable. > > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 15:19, Dylan McNeill wrote: > >>Folks, >>Help me enumerate the ways that VNC (and its various flavors such as >>tightvnc, tridiavnc, etc.) is better for remote desktop admin (mostly >>troubleshooting, some admin stuff) on a LAN (WindowsNT4 Servers and >>Workstations, Win2K) running 100Mb (10 mb in a couple places) than >>Microsoft's NetMeeting Desktop Sharing services. >>Or point me to a web site that does a comparison. The one point he has on me >>is that Netmeeting3 is already installed on W2K pro. I counter with the >>"push" scripts for VNC. >>Thanks. >> >>----------------- >>J.Dylan McNeill >>Technology Coordinator >>Oregon Community School District #220 >>OCUSD District Office >>206 South Tenth Street >>815.732.4313 >>Oregon, IL 61061 >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: >>'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY >>See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
