On 3-Oct-07, at 2:03 PM, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
On 2007-10-03 12:51, Colin Stanners wrote:
VNC is FOSS and very multi-platform (it has mac support, I haven't heard complaints) and is what I use in many cases. There's a few variants which are all interoptable...
I was going to recommend the same thing.
In some cases I've seen delays and disconnects on some router/computer combinations but I think that that may be a windows networking stack bug in v4 of RealVNC. Possibly other variants such as TightVNC/UltraVNC don't have this problem.
Our Mac techie has installed OSXvnc (now called Vine Server for OS X, by Redstone Software, Inc., and available from their web site, or from sourceforge or freshmeat) on some of our Mac servers, and I haven't had any trouble accessing it using either RealVNC under Windows XP, or the Linux vncviewer command (both RealVNC 4.1.2, and an older att.com 3.3 version).
A VNC server is already installed by OSX.
Apple Remote Desktop uses a bastardized version of VNC, but it does allow you to enable regular VNC.
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services
Check Apple Remote Desktop
A Window will pop up for you to configure the Access Controls. One of the options is 'VNC Viewers may control screen with password: ____"
That enables regular VNC connections with said password.
shawn