From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 17:53:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A87615572 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:53:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4CEA for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:53:17 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1206 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:56:49 +1100 Message-ID: <3887BC56.A5FCA353@S1.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:54:30 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCAnywhere look out!! References: <38872AB4.9E0356A5@math.udel.edu> <3887B995.28E85DF1@st-anthonys.edu.tt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephan Weaver wrote: > > what is THIS thing? > probably (for people in a mixed OS environment where they have to work on multiple machines across a network) the best thing since sliced bread! It is a relatively light-weight protocol that allows remote control of a desktop. Be it Mac/OS, NT, Win9x, U*ix of many many flavours. These can be controlled from any of the above platforms, plus any that has a Java-capable browser, plus WinCE. It is "kinda like" X, but the protocol is a lot less resource-hungry than X - I've used both over a 28k8 modem line, and I much prefer VNC! It is also 'stateless' in the sense that, if you have X sessions running (e.g xterms, net-nav, xv, whatever) and you shut down X, the sessions are gone. With VNC, the state is "stored" on the server end, and you can start all your stuff on one machine, shut down that machine, go to another office/building/town/city/country, reconnect to that server, and the sessions are all there *exactly* where you left them! Perhaps we need a 'vnc-advocates' list? ;') A collegue and I here at work just love it. He is an NT SysAdmin, and he controld several machines with it both in the office and from home. I use it to telecommute over 70kms. If you have a multi-OS environment, where you need access to all those machines, but you don't really have room for them all on your desk, or you share those machines with others, and you all need a graphical interface to tools on those machine, then VNC may be for you. It's "lightweight" (the Windows Viewer software fits on a floppy diskette) in size and protocol use, easy to use, and free! Highly recommended. haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message