VNC on NT - Surpressing Wallpaper graphics

[Dan Fulbright]

Since you've not received any responses, I thought I would give you a
suggestion.  Remove your wallpaper.  That's what I did.  I don't miss it
one bit.

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 galvorn "at" att.net wrote:

> I'm evaluating VNC currently and I think it's great 
> except for 1 thing - Wallpaper on an NT box.
> - PCAnywhere disables Wallpaper on the viewer end, and 
> this is very crucial for Slow (anolog modem) 
> connections.   VNC works great on a lan, but across a 
> modem of 28.8 to 33.6 speed, it takes unacceptably long 
> to draw the wallpaper graphics of the host machine.  
> Especially when the host machine has a multimonitor 
> configuration.   When I dial my Lan, and connect across 
> a 33.6 link, to my work network, then VNC to my work 
> machine - (an NT box with 3 monitors and hi-res 
> wallpaper), It takes 30+ minutes to draw the screen.  
> Does anyone know if there exists a version of VNC that 
> does not transmitt the Host Computer's Wallpaper?
> 
> --
> From:
> Nick
> galvorn "at" worldnet.att.net


-- 
Dan Fulbright
linux "at" fan.com



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