[LUAU] Remote controling software

[Ronald L Fox]

At 03:40 PM 2/10/99 -1000, Chris Wong wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Derek J Podoll wrote:
>> I remember at one of the first meeting I went to some one gave out a
>> webaddress for apage that you can download a program like X-Windows for
>> windows and linux that maid it so that when you leave you home with the
>> server running and get to work and log into your computer at home you
>> would see your desktop the same way you left it.  Would anyone be able to
>> give me the URL for that page because I lost the Mail that it was sent in.
>
>My understand is that it was VNC.. not quite what you have in mind.
>
>But here's the URL (hey they moved!)
>
>http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc

Yep, that was VNC and it can do just what you described.  I use it all day
long to connect from Win95 PCs to servers running Win95, WinNT and Linux.

It works like a dream on a 10Mbit LAN.  Also works over PPP on a 33.6 dialup
but it crawls unless you are careful about the resolution and color depth
on the server and the complexity of the display.  But it sure beats driving
50 miles roundtrip at 3AM.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc is the current URL.  Olivetti and Oracle
Research Laboratory (ORL) was aquired by AT&T and is now AT&T Laboratories
Cambridge.

The VNC product is free and Open Source.

Would anyone like to see a demo at the next meeting?

Ron