I understand that, but I can't figure out how to get around the problem of a client that is all contained in one .exe and needs no install. This allows me to start the session on my machine at home, download the single .exe file into c:\temp on the machine at school (where I don't have admin permission to install anything), ssh in and go.From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: X11 Server for ms windows Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:11:58 -0700 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:30:31AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I have found that VNC (thanks to suggestions I received on this list) is > relatively painless to use. Somewhat. You still have to start the session on the remote host first, in addition to all the drawbacks of MiX, plus VNC is a serious bandwidth hog when compared to X.
Can you offer any suggestions on how to get around this? I agree that the bandwith thing is a pain since my ADSL is capped at 256kb upstream. Even with compression, it can get a little slow at times.
-Roberto Sanchez
VNC has it's place, and that's slapping a network layer on a non-network window system (like Windows). - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+qMOeJ5vLSqVpK2kRAsgfAKDeM/Y5FZfSu3whmIKlDPnL0WUp8gCgkueK 63MdYvDGkgmLaShRkAEKq4E= =2ByE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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