RDEsktop/VNC questions

[Murray Taylor]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:14, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Quick question about interconnectivity.
> 
> You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called
> RDC (Remote Desktop Connection).  Some of you other *BSDers may also be
> familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (?).
> The purpose of said utilities is to provide a sort of graphical shell
> similar to an X session from a remote machine in a window.
> 
> There are several rdesktop and vnc clients in the ports, so rather than
> go through the flurry of install-tryout-uninstall/repeat, I figured I'd
> go to the place to ask questions.  Here.
> 
> So, who's using these clients, and how effective have you been finding
> them?  Any gotchas?  How cool is it?  Do they just plain suck?  And more
> to the point, which one(s) should I start with on the short list?
> 
> All feedback is welcome - and appreciated.
> Lou

VNC is great - been using it since 2000

we use the windows version for M$ hosts 
and I can grab my FreeBSD workstation (XFree86/FBSD4.9)
from my laptop and can grab the laptop and other hosts
from the FBSD box just as easily

the current versions are very light on bandwidth too
(useful as I often hook machines in Sydney from our
Melbourne office via our frame relay link. Used to clobber 
the link but now is mostly un-noticable)

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