This is strictly my opinion but... The best thing about VNC is it is free and source code is available if you feel the need to alter it. It is also a fairly tight little program in regards to size and performance I think at last test it performed only second to Citrix. It's leading competitor for remote access weighs in at a hefty 30+ Mb. VNC will fit and run off a floppy disk. You're right in my opinion that it needs a file transfer utility, but a number of us who use VNC in a large capacity also run it with OpenSSH which contains a utility called SCP. If you're running SSH with VNC then you get the copy utility and you can run VNC securely across an encrypted channel. You can get away also with installing a mini ftp server on your remote host and starting it up after you connect with VNC to transfer files also though you do not get the security benefits of SSH. Of course I'm speaking here mostly about the Windows version since many of these limitations do not exist on the UNIX platforms.
VNC is not and does not try to be an end to end solution. This may change as it evolves but currently I do not believe it seeks that capacity. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
