Becuase no matter where I am at school (where most machines run winblows) I can download the vncviewer (one .exe file, no install, no DLLs, and no necessity for admin privileges) and then SSH with port forwading and get access to my machines. Otherwise, I would need to install some sort of X client (which most of the machines do not have, except in one computer engineering lab),On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:03:01PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I have the vncserver running on two machines on my home LAN. My Why not just use X instead? X is a networking window system, after all, and it displays things far faster and more smoothly than VNC could ever dream to be.
In the event that I am sitting at a *nix machine, I can always SSH in and startup a new Xserver, but the vnc seems to be much easier to handle given that I usually remot in from a winblows terminal.
If I am wrong, please let me know. I don't want to do this the hard way, especially if it is not necessary.
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