single linux box on dsl?

Jeremy Brown jeremy at cadre5.com
Fri May 14 13:01:19 UTC 2004


Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

>I'm curious why anybody would want to do X forwarding when it seems to me
>that VNC would be faster and easier, not to mention more robust (if the
>network connection dies, the session is still there on the server, waiting
>for me).
>
>Am I missing something?  Is X forwarding better than VNC in some way?
>  
>

VNC requires root access on the server to set up.  VNC is also limited 
to one user at a time.

It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish, I suppose.

Jeremy





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