RDEsktop/VNC questions

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:27 pm, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
> 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
>
> In my experience, vnc is painfully slow.
> rdesktop on the other hand has always performed to my full
> satisfaction. On Unix machines (and IIRC OSX, as well) you can also
> use X11 (preferrably tunneled
> through ssh).
>
> Kind regards,
> Benjamin

In addition to being secure, tunnelling apps through ssh allows you to 
minimize the number of ports you leave open in your firewall.  (In 
fact, I think rsync works through ssh by default.  You can also start a 
ssh connection from within kermit for a secure kermit connection.)

Andrew Gould