At 05:15 PM -0700 06/12/2003, Bruce Johnson wrote:
If I may slip into horribly cliched out-of-date popular culture: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.
Hmmm...I must confess I pretty much only ever use the windows client, since it's headless Macs and servers I'm messing with on my Win2k work system. I suspect the problem's in the Mac client. Have you tried the Java client? (use it with a web browser. <http://www.realvnc.com/javavncviewer.html> I just used it with oscar my 8.6 Mac and it worked fine.)
VNC server on the classic mac does crash sometimes, but not all that often; I'd had oscar up for about 40 days before I had to reboot it last week a couple of times trying to sort out an Appletalk problem.
The server on the OSX mac is flawless. I use OSXvnc <http://www.redstonesoftware.com/osxvnc/>
Other OSX clients are:
VNCDimension <http://www.mdimension.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/mDimension.woa/2/wo/ZLbNXeUkgqkYyZXpDIkQRM/0.7>
Chicken of the VNC <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/>
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