SOE VNC - COOL!

[trash1@PlumasBank.com]

Valid points, but the one about having to be logged in the same on both
machines doesn't seem to be true. I'm testing it right now without a problem
with that.

The lack of Backward compatibility is understandable. Not much of a point
having NT authentication if the server can choose to ignore it :-)

We disable the miniserver here, so that not a big one to us.

>From what I can tell, the SOE group is a department inside citigroup. It
stands for "Standard Operating Environment". It explains the limitations of
the product as well. It is only designed for a very specific use. I doubt we
have a channel for contacting them. Our best bet is probably Justin, since
he probably just got this from his IT department.

>A quick look at the docs points out a number of problems:
>
>- No HTTP miniserver
>- No Viewer for non-Windows systems
>- Standard VNC viewer will not work
>- You have to be logged in to NT as the same user on both machines (A
>pain in my case because I have different accounts for my personal
>machine and most machines I would want to make changes remotely to)
>
>There also seems to be a bit of FUD about VNC being insecure because it
>keeps a "password file".  Nope, on Windows platforms it is in the
>registry, and on NT based systems you can restrict it.
>
>Sound interesting in theory, but isn't as flexible as RealVNC.  If you
>can live with the constraints it might be useful.  Anyone know what
>happened to the "PC-SOE" group that produced this?
>
>-- 
>William