VNC replacing Terminal Server?

[Andre Moreira]

I think you are rigth. The problem never was the proxy itself. In fact
no major performance improvement was noticed when we start using
the unix vncviewer directly.


John Wilson wrote:
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> That's interesting Andre. At the moment I'm connected to three NT serve=
rs
> using VncMonitor via VNC server and the system load on the viewer machi=
ne
> (also an NT box) and the servers is pretty much identical to the load
> without the proxy. The proxy is running on the same machine as the view=
er if
> this were not so then the network traffic due to Vnc would be higher.
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> The WinVnc servers have their "out of the box" configuration.
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> Email me when you start this project again and I'll see if I can help.
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> John Wilson
> The Wilson Partnership
> 5 Market Hill, Whitchurch, Aylesbury, Bucks HP22 4JB, UK
> +44 1296 641072, +44 976 611010(mobile), +44 1296 641874(fax)
> Mailto: tug "at" wilson.co.uk
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andre Moreira <andre "at" dei.isep.ipp.pt>
> To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
> Sent: 03 September 1999 00:47
> Subject: Re: VNC replacing Terminal Server?
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> Hi
> We've done some testing here about this.
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> We had 3 NT Workstations with VNC Server service
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> First we=B4ve tried the front-end aproach something like a proxy that
> connects to all the servers and then waits for clients.
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> 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:
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> - Receives on the command line a set of servers a try to connect
> to each one until a connection is accepted.
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> - An inactivity timeout is defined to avoid that users keep connected
> while not using the server.
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> - Some other minior enhancements related to scroll-bars and push
> buttons to allow sending alt-ctrl-del.
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> 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:
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> - 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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