Having used VNC almost daily for a year I can offer the following. TightVNC is the least bandwidth intensive. Available at tightvnc.com There are clients for Windows, Linux, (linux builds on FreeBSD) and Mac. Viewing Linux on windows is better than the other way around. Since Windows doesn't multitask everyone winds up with the same desktop, and you tend to crash windows (what a suprise) fairly easy. However if you are on windows and viewing linux it rocks. It's useable down to a 56k connection but it feels a lot like a 486 at 56k. Use a window manager like ice or fvvm for the best results. KDE and Gnome are tooooooo graphicaly intesive for remote viewing. However the apps from kde and gnome work well under ice or fvvm. If you go regular VNC they even have a client for CE. It works as a viewer but its not the fastest thing in the world.
James On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:07:09 -0700 "Vincent Danen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Jan 18, 2002 at 09:20:28PM -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out how to make that work with my Win2K machine. I'm > > using ttsh on the Win2K PC to establish an SSH connection with the Linux > > machine. There's an option in ttssh for running remote X apps on the local > > X server but there doesn't appear to be a listing for an X server in the > > Win2K services. I suppose that there is an X app for Win2K somewhere? > > You need to be running an X server on your Windows machine and no, > Win2k does not come with one. > > There are some commercial X servers for Windows, but I can't really > remember which are good and which aren't... it's been a while since I > looked (probably over a year). When I last did, there were no free X > servers for Windows. > > What you probably need is to setup VNC... I know that you can get > Windows showing up on your Linux box this way, but not sure about vice > versa (I think it will work... I remember turning on and off the > wife's xmms when I played with it before, but whether I was on the > Windows machine or my Linux machine I don't recall). > > FYI (and this is more for others reading as I don't think this matters > much to you in particular), I just got an X server running on > MacOS/X... now all I need is to find an ssh client for MacOS/X and I > can run xchat on it by tunneling it from my Linux box (wOOp!). > > -- > MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net > 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD > > Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 9 days 11 hours 43 minutes. >
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