User Feedback :: Great but could someone help a little bit
Using VNC - WORK IN PROGRESS
VNC is another means of accessing other computers remotely. It works using RFB protocol and, if you can actually find an opinion, the general feeling is that RDP is superior. It comes in various flavours for different applications. You can get a whole lot more on this on web based wiki's. Here's how to get it working quickly:
1. Download the free edition (windows version) from www.realvnc.com 2. Install it on your windows box and make sure you select run and register it as a service. 3. Goto Windows Firewall on the box and click on the exceptions tab. Click add program - select winvnc and click ok. 4. Click add port and add VNC with port 5900 as TCP/IP and ok out of everything. 5. Go back to DSL - click on VNC viewer and type your box name and the password you specified earlier. Hey presto!
Useful note: Get out of Fullscrren mode by pressing F8.
Ok - now to make it work in fullscreen...
From the command line use: vncviewer -fullscreen yourserverpc
There are other switches you can too - have alook at this website...
Having had a good look at VNC (with / without toram mode which made no apparent difference) it looks immediately great BUT is very slow to react and update. My network is a dedicated 100MB line using switches and no other real traffic. When I switched off the background etc. it did improve significantly but not enough to get excited about. rDesktop is winning so far...
I have just installed the VNC version 4 available at the MyDSL download area. Once installed, the icon doesn't work so it's best just to navigate your way to the /usr/local/bin directory and click on vncviewer to get this version up and running. I am not into ironing out these bugs right now, I am just testing the service.
The updated version gives you lots of nice options to set for the connection. When up and running you can also find out what speed you are running at - I am running at about 13000kbits/sec which seems pretty fast to me yet the connection isn't that great.
The conclusion I am coming to on this is as follows:
With the latest version of VNC up and running, my conclusion is that it looks great (because it is a faithful reproduction of the VNC-server's desktop) yet the scrolling is slow and the refresh rates are poor in comparison to rDesktop.
rDesktop on the other hand looks a bit boxy and frankly doesn't take your breath away with reproduction but it works very efficiently. The comparison is chalk and cheese. If you want something taht ain't annoying, redesktop is your solution.
I am off to see if I can install rDesktop 1.5.0 somehow.
C.
PS Anyone had thoughts on the hda1, hda2 problem with them not showing up in the mount tool? I am hoping this will go away with a fresh install towards the end of the project.Another question:
Upgrading rDesktop to current version 1.5.0 - I'm not sure how to do this. Could someone shed some light?
This may be a waste of time, I'm not sure (again help appreciated) - my idea is that if I upgrade I might get a better service.
I have downloaded the tar.gz and installed it using MyDSL Load and a directory appears in the / which is all fine but I don't know how to activate it / use it. Using my honed windows skills I have gone to the directory from the cmd prompt and tried to run it from there but its just the same old 1.3 version that crops up. Apologies for such a noob question.
C.Question
Could someone point me in the direction of a good article on creating command based shortcuts on the x desktop / finder. I am probably searching for the wrong thing again but I can't seem to find what I am looking for.
To explain further - I need to click on an icon on the desktop and it will run a command e.g. rdesktop (arguments) and it will go off and do it.
Many thanks
C.LUA bit of project - MORE HELP PLEASE!
I originally thought that I would be able to relatively easily create a .lua file which would act as a container for all the parameters that each of the Virtual PCs that I was connecting to. Lua is beginning to look very daunting indeed.
In an effort to scope this out a bit better here is the func-spec overview of what I need. Could someone with good C understanding help me by explaining how much work is involved? I really have no programming experience at all. None. Nada.
Functional Specification
A .lua file (or perhaps something else) to do the following:
Provide a set of buttons or drop down boxes to efficiently select a Virtual computer housed on the server to connect to. At this stage the likelihood is that rdesktop will be used to connect to them. As the connection is selected, an rdesktop command is sent to the kernel for execution.
It seems pretty simple but I just don't know really where to begin.
Many thanks
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To explain further - I need to click on an icon on the desktop and it will run a command e.g. rdesktop (arguments) and it will go off and do it.
- I believe you can use the icontool for this.Next Page...
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