[K12OSN] VNC &

[Petre Scheie]

It seems to me that Xvnc, launched via xinetd, consumes a significant amount of 
resources on the host, at least relative to a thin client.  I've never tried it 
beyond just a few (three) simultaneous sessions, but even with just that number 
of VNC client connections, the server seems to begin bogging down.  But I should 
qualify that by saying the server was pretty modest in memory, processor speed 
(just one processor) and IDE disks.  Perhaps a properly outfitted server 
wouldn't be so easily affected.

Petre

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:35, John Hegarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>VNC Query
>>I have VNC installed on our windows pcs and they can access the server
>>easily that way. However it only seems to allow 3 or 4 connections at
>>any one time.
> 
> 
> I don't see why that would be the case. What kind of error are you
> getting?
> 
> However, if you want to run windows clients there are a couple of
> alternatives.  One is the free Cygwin X version from
> http://www.cygwin.com.  If you start it with 'Xwin -query server'
> you will have exactly the same thing as a thin client.  Another is NX, a
> low-bandwidth approach to X clients.   Someone posted links to an
> RPM-packaged server and both windows and Linux clients to the list
> recently.  This might be the best approach to large numbers of
> windows clients and the client is easy to install.  If you can't
> find that posting, I can dig it up for you.
> 
> ---
>  Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 
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