Known Mac Server Conflicts?

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 06:50:18PM +0000, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >Excuse me if this merely displays my ignorance, but why have Timbuktu and
> >VNC? What can VNC do that Timbuktu can't? Or vice versa. I'm new to this
> >group, and I'm trying to sort out a remote connection path for radiologists
> >on PC and Mac platforms to talk to eachother and to a Solaris workstation.
> 
> I've absolutely no idea how powerful Timbuktu is - i don't even know if it
> works on UNIX...  but there is an off-chance it could conflict with VNC,
> depending on how it 'hooks' into the MacOS.

Timbuktu (I'm using version 5.2.2) coexists fine with a machine
running the Mac VNC server, both your beta 2.2 version and the beta 3
version.  Timbuktu is much more usable than VNC over a modem
connection, connections, but over ethernet I can't tell the
difference.  The main advantages of Timbuktu are smaller memory
footprint, support for file transfer, text and voice chat, multiple
passwords, Internet location servers, direct modem connections, etc.
Timbuktu has been around since 1987, so it's had a while to evolve,
too :-)

However, Timbuktu doesn't run on X/Unix, and it costs some money.  So,
for my purposes, since I use Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS on a
daily basis, I use both.

-- 
Nicholas Riley <njriley "at" uiuc.edu>

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