single linux box on dsl?

[William Hooper]

Jeremy Brown said:
> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>
>>I'm curious why anybody would want to do X forwarding when it seems to me
>>that VNC would be faster and easier, not to mention more robust (if the
>>network connection dies, the session is still there on the server,
>> waiting
>>for me).
>>
>>Am I missing something?  Is X forwarding better than VNC in some way?
>>
>>
>
> VNC requires root access on the server to set up.

I don't see any reason why it would.  It doesn't use any privledged ports.

> VNC is also limited
> to one user at a time.

Huh?  Multiple users can look at the same VNC session and multiple VNC
sessions can be started on a single machine.

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William Hooper