VNC replacing Terminal Server?

[Andre Moreira]

Hi
We've done some testing here about this.

We had 3 NT Workstations with VNC Server service

First we=B4ve tried the front-end aproach something like a proxy that
connects to all the servers and then waits for clients.

Because there were major performance problems we then developed another
solution, based only on a special UNIX vnc viewer.
This UNIX Vnc Viewer had several features:

- Receives on the command line a set of servers a try to connect
to each one until a connection is accepted.

- An inactivity timeout is defined to avoid that users keep connected
while not using the server.

- Some other minior enhancements related to scroll-bars and push =

buttons to allow sending alt-ctrl-del.

The main problem is performance, but i think that is related with
WinVNC server and it's configuration.
For the moment this is suspended around here because i don'n have
any available machines.
Of course all these requires a specific configuration on WinVNC
server, for instance:

- When a connection ends the NT users is logged out.
- When a connection is active further connection are refused.
- ...

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Andre Moreira (http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre)


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