> It's a thin (and sometimes invisible) line between user and developer > in the open source world. Talking about similar products is a good > way of addressing where VNC may need to go.
If we're talking about useful VNC mods, the RFB 4 protocol goes a long way to solving a number of issues. The main one for me has to be the single user sign- on. I've had a lot of ppl say to me that's the main security block for them going to VNC (that and it's full control or nothing). In the past year or so there's been a big leap forward in universal print drivers. Citrix and now New Moon are pushing these. The citrix course I went on said that uni-drivers aren't perfect, but they're not unuseable. I'm wondering how something like that could be set up on VNC. Maybe more work on zlib tunnels would be a good thing? Going for a multi- platform idea, you'd need one tunnel to handle the traffic back to the viewer. The viewer would need to pass this information to it's own printers and the key stumbling block would be how the server creates the print job. You'd need a driver that suited (l)unix, max, windows, etc. Some sort of PDF style technology might do it, but I'm not a programmer. In any case, you'd end up installing that driver on each box. :-) > True multi-user support on Windows would be a rat's nest; having some > way to easily integrate things such as direct cross-LAN file and print > support is not as cumbersome though and is a respectable need in the > Windows arena for VNC. Multi-user Windows, IMO, is not really a VNCissue - unless we're talking about an add in to Terminal Services that replaces the RDP client. I think there is a unix gadget that will do this, but it's not for vanilla MS TS boxes. Replacing RDP with VNC's tight / zlib you'd get connectivity from any system, whereas at the mo RDP is Windows clients only. I think this would be a winable battle.... but I wouldn't like to write the code <g> You could probably make a bit of cash out of the support..... as the code would need to be open. :-) Later, Richard --------------------------------- Richard Harris Environment IT, NCC Ext 4509 --------------------------------- "Service, price , quality: pick any two." --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
