From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 14:13:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDDB16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:13:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EABA43D5F for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:13:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D651C6995 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:13:55 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20041110231449.GG39219@keyslapper.org> References: <20041110231449.GG39219@keyslapper.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:13:55 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: RDEsktop/VNC questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:13:57 -0000 On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Quick question about interconnectivity. > > You OSX users may be familiar with a very slick little utility called > RDC (Remote Desktop Connection). Some of you other *BSDers may also be > familiar with one called VNC (Visual Network Connection ?) or RDP (?). > The purpose of said utilities is to provide a sort of graphical shell > similar to an X session from a remote machine in a window. > > There are several rdesktop and vnc clients in the ports, so rather than > go through the flurry of install-tryout-uninstall/repeat, I figured I'd > go to the place to ask questions. Here. > > So, who's using these clients, and how effective have you been finding > them? Any gotchas? How cool is it? Do they just plain suck? And > more > to the point, which one(s) should I start with on the short list? I've used them both (RDP protocol client and various VNC clients on different platforms), and they're for two different things. RDP (the RDC client) is for connecting to Windows Terminal Services; you get a desktop login of your own in your own session. VNC takes remote control of a desktop running the server application. RDP is a hack to turn Windows into a "multi user" system, while VNC is single-user implementation. Which one should you start with? Depends on the platform and what you're trying to do. If you have a Windows Terminal Server, an RDP client is the way to go. If you don't...VNC is the way to go :-)