Re: ssh and remote desktops
Re: ssh and remote desktops
- Subject: Re: ssh and remote desktops
- From: Keith Esau <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 16:21:15 -0500
On 05-24-2003 2:52 AM, "Tim Cutts" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Joe DeCosta wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps a better solution would be to run VNC on the host machine and
>> use any of the available mac VNC clients without having to use apple's
>> X11 server.....its far less bandwidth intensive to use VNC then it is
>> to use, apple's x11.
>
> I'm not sure that's true - X protocol doesn't transmit screen images,
> whereas VNC does. VNC has a lot more data to carry. I'd be very
> surprised if VNC requires less bandwidth than a remote X session.
>
> Carrying a remote VNC session through X protocol (by using a remote X
> VNC client) is silly, though, I agree, but if the X VNC client is local,
> the bandwidth used should be the same as if it's a native VNC client
> (although the speed of rendering might not be as good!).
I've tried both (except I use Citrix instead of VNC). Citrix is MUCH faster
than X-Windows probably because of the X client/server communication being
done locally instead of long distance. I believe the problem is the latency,
not the bandwidth.
Keith Esau
email@hidden
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