[luau] vnc for UNIX/Linux?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Thu Oct 10 17:30:01 PDT 2002


All recent versions of Red Hat and Mandrake include packages for VNC
servers and clients.  In my experience the "tight" encoding works best
for most internet links, while hextile is great for LAN connections.  I
personally am not positive about RealVNC and TridiavVNC, and the VNC
version at AT&T is the ancient oldest version, don't use it.

When logging into the VNC server running on Linux from a Windows client,
I use the TightVNC client from here:
http://www.tightvnc.com/

K12LTSP distribution has an easy RPM of ltsp configs that allows
on-demand VNC connections via xinetd.  When you make a VNC connection,
it opens a new XDM (or KDM or GDM) login screen just like your normal
login screen in init 5.  Their ltsp-configs RPM works on pretty much any
version of Red Hat, and probably Mandrake too, if you have vnc-server
package installed.





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