FX Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 (edited) Didn't know if I should put this here or networking, but anyways. What is the better "gui" VNC or Rdesktop? I have used VNC before and it seems very slow. I haven't use rdesktop before and was wondering if its any better. What ports need to be open and weather it would be hard to setup with Slack? FXMod Note:Moved from Software by Phunni Edited May 17, 2004 by phunni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 Given the options, I would choose vnc - but only because I know how to use it best - of course the best option will always be a remote X session (even to a Windows box, although then the software isn't free). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 If you used the 3x version of VNC before, try the 4x Beta. It's all-around better, but much faster in particular. I've been using VNC 4x for a long time with great results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 If you used the 3x version of VNC before, try the 4x Beta. It's all-around better, but much faster in particular. I've been using VNC 4x for a long time with great results. That's good to hear because speed was always my only real problem with VNC. I still maintain that a remote X session is the best way to go. If nothing else, then just because it's the most secure (SSH). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted May 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 Thanks for the replies. I myself like ssh/sftp/scp better when doing remote things, but the wife is a little different. Im trying to get her to use linux, I have to some extent, but if she only has the terminal option I don't think she'll accept it as much. Only other thing she hates is that it (Linux) moves SLOW on her laptop. It only has 128 meg of ram, but XP just kicks Linuxs butt on it for speed. FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 I still maintain that a remote X session is the best way to go. If nothing else, then just because it's the most secure (SSH). You can SSH with VNC. I think TightVNC includes SSH. I just use RealVNC (the original) and I've never fooled with setting up SSH. Not worried about being hacked. But the RealVNC website has instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 NO, you don't understand - a remote X session IS OPENED OVER AN SSH CONNECTION. Sorry - I don't think I explained it well enough. It essentially does everything that vnc does, but it does it via ssh and opens up a remote X session from the XFree server. Comprende? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 crashdamage says taht vnc can be made secure with ssh too (like the tunneling option of X). I think that vnc is lighet so faster tant x isn't it ? Furthermore, it allows to share desktop other mulitiple OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Yeah, what I said, I just said it poorly. Should've previewed that post for sure. Anyway, I've never fooled with tunneling a VNC session with SSH 'cause for what I use VNC for it's just not that critical. Let 'em hack into my sessions if they want - nothing worthwhile to steal and it'll bore them silly. VNC works great for remotes to my Win2k workstation from my Linux box at home. I hear another beta of VNC 4x is due out soon, but the 4x beta I've been using for months has been rock-solid. TightVNC adds SSH capability for security. There's another Windows-only version of VNC (can't remeber the name) that adds a built-in FTP client for remote file transfers to give some of the functionality of pcAnywhere or LapLink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 You can open a remote X session on other OSes as well. There is software for Windows (although it apprently isn't free) and OSX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 i use tight VNC and it works in real time, the only problem is that when i have the firewall on linux, i cannot access my linuxbox from remote machines (aka i dont know what to do to give tight vnc a passthrough on the firewall) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Have you made sure that you have port 5900 open in your firewall confugration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Naajk Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 (edited) Am I wrong or shouldn't you open port 5900 + x where x is the screen number? So you will need to connect to your first VNC screen on 5900 + 1 = 5901 instead of 5900? Edited May 23, 2004 by Naajk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 ill try both, (ill open 5900 and 5901) the question is when i go to my other computer, i address mycomuter withi its ip address + what? i know befor i put the firewall up i would do: 192.168.1.500:1 but now should i do 192.168.1.500:5901 -or- 192.168.1.500:5900 which ever works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 ok i ran into a problem, how do i open the port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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