I had posted this question earlier.

[Mayuresh A Kathe]

Well actually I had posed the question to know the exact response from most
of the VNC users, but got very few ones (hardly 6).

You all must of used VNC on a unix system with XWindows and must have been
satisfied by the results.

Recently I tried out an experiment on my Linux Server running XFree86 with
WindowMaker. I was running a few office apps as well as netscape navigator.

I gave access to 5 users running Win9x with vncviewers and asked them to
carry out certains tasks such as visiting a site, creating documents and
spreadsheets. Well I had not expected it, but the server supported all 5
users excelently.
Around the same time I came across the SunRay1 from Sun Microsystems (@
http://www.sun.com/sunray1) It is something that can be done with vncserver
running on Unix with Windows clients.

Please check out the web site and let me know what you think about it.

Me and two other friends of mine are thinking of implementing VNC in along
the lines of SunRay1.

Awaiting your replies.

Regards.

--
Mayuresh A Kathe
Think Different. Think Better.
mayuresh "at" vsnl.com

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>From: Arnt Witteveen <Arnt.Witteveen "at" vartec.be>
>To: "'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'" <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
>Subject: RE: I had posted this question earlier.
>Date: Wed, Nov 3, 1999, 9:47 PM
>

>>I had posted this question earlier but didn't get satisfactory reply.
>>
>>I would like to clear out the following points:
>>1. What is VNC being positioned as?
>
> I quote from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ , which you probably read
> (I hope):
>
> VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote
> display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment
> not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the
> Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
>
> Now please specifiy what more you want to know?
>
>>2. Is VNC gonna be just for controlling another computer's
>> desktop only?
>
> Hmm, yes I think so, until someone (and probably not it's creators)  finds a
> reason to use it for something else, and the time to program it. And even
> then it'll probably not be integrated into the main VNC ditribution, since
> "It is, in essence, a remote display system"...
>
> If you are talking about certain features such as file transfer, see FAQ
> Q53.
>
> Q53 Could you do file transfer (e.g. by drag & drop) between the two ends?
> It's certainly possible, but we aren't going to do it. File transfer seems
> simple, but is actually rather complicated to do in a cross-platform way.
>
> Arnt
>
> PS: Note to everyone talking about compressing the stream: while I was
> readin this, I ran into FAQ Q55 Would things work better if you compressed
> the stream? ...
>
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