DogEatDog
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Posted: Sep. 19 2007,22:51 |
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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...
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/3.3.7/man/vncviewer.html
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.
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