If I may slip into horribly cliched out-of-date popular culture:
VNC is da bomb!
Definitely the way to go. It is an omni-platform product; I use it to control my web server (a headless Performa 6214 running OS 8.6) as well as our office guinea pig OSX box (also running headless off in the corner)
I'm trying to use VNC to control the router and servers here. (All PM 7xxx machines; OS 8.6 and 9.2.2). Also using it to help a friend remotely.
VNCserver 3.3.3beta3 seems to work ok on my local machines. But I found the client that comes with it (same version number) to be VERY unstable; crashing repeatedly. I poked around a bit and found an alternate client, VNCThing 2.2.
I am still, however, having two problems...
Periodically, VNCThing seems to loose the connection to the Macs on our LAN. It just suddenly doesn't refresh the screen window - most often after doing something that changes a large portion of the remote's screen (eg: bringing an app with lots of windows to the foreground). It reconnects just fine, but it's frustrating.
The 2nd problem occurs when using VNCThing to talk to a PM 7300 at a friend's house. We're both on Comcast, so our pipe is a mutual 1500 Kbps down and 256 Kbps up; should be fast enough I think. The connection gets lost at about the same rate as when I'm talking to a local machine, but for an added bonus, my friend's Mac freezes!
Are there any trix to using VNC? Better versions?
Thx, - Dan.
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