Post by Dominick DiMantovaI want to log into a remote Solaris 9 box and have it appear on my
windows xp box as though I am sitting in front of the solaris 9 box.
Would VNC enable me this?
Possibly.
Traditional versions of VNC would actually run it's own private Xserver
that, instead of a physical screen, would draw only to a virtual bitmap.
This Xserver had the VNC protocol built in and would know exactly which
pixels were changed and send the minimal amount across the network.
However, I *think* that there are now current versions that work similar
how the Win32 version works. That is, it somehow monitors the physical
display and sends back changes. I'm not sure if this requires a hacked
Xserver or it somehow hooks into the server as a monitoring agent or if it
just scans the full screen as fast as it can. You'll have to research
that.
So, if all you need is the ability to run X apps on a Solaris box and
display back on Win32, then yes, VNC will definitely allow you to do that
(as would running an X server on your Win32 box; at that point it's just a
matter of what feels good for you).
If you need to be able to control the physical mouse and monitor the
physical display on the Solaris box, then the answer is, you might be able
to, but you'll need to do a bit more research to see if those solutions
work on anything but Xfree servers (ie, Linux, *BSD, etc). Google would be
your friend here.
mrc
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