Hi Mark (and everyone else), Honestly, I'm not sure why VNC is used for this, but it is the standard - several other NMR facilities that I know of also use VNC to enable students to access and work up their data remotely. The company that makes the instrument and wrote the software has suggested VNC as well.
Where I used to work, the students used PuTTY to ssh to the Sun computer, and then started a VNCSession. They then launched the Viewer. This was all set up by the IT person, and it has worked great for the past 3 years. I'm trying to get something similar going where I now work. Hope that helps clarify things a bit. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Mark Willis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:36 PM To: Anne Gorham Subject: Re: VNC and security issues at a university Dear Anne, I would still question the need to use VNC at all for this. If the student is using a linux box then they just need to ssh to the UNIX server and run the applicartion - maybe I missed something about the application is it an X app.? or comand line?. If they are coming form say a Windows XP PC then they would need something like HummingBird Exceed, Cygwin, and so on if the app. is an X based one else just use the free Wondows putty.exe. Anyway, If the app is X-based then how will VNC sort this when many students connect to the single server anyway? Sorry if I've completely missed the point. M. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
