[TriLUG] LastFoot.com VNCSERVER

[Ben Pitzer]

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As a former employee of Lastfoot.com, I feel I should clarify.  Lastfoot
had no proprietary version of VNC.  It simply used the same version as
everyone else, more or less.  They were working on some way to do secure
connections (not sure if it was using an ssh tunnel or not, to be honest),
but that never came to fruition before they merged with TreLOS and became
NeTraverse (makers of Win4Lin, for all you Windows emulation junkies).

Anything you need to know about VNC can be found here:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

It really is an interesting product, although I'm not sure if there aren't
better remote display technologies out there, such as Tarantella.  It
may be that the others aren't free, but don't quote me on that, either.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Joseph, "lastfoot" was a divergent line of VNC.  It was designed to use a
> tiny foot print, and be as light weight as possible.  I don't think anyone
> has worked on the opensource version in a while.  I've heard some folks say
> nice things about it, but VNC has always met my needs.
>
> Jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sinner from the Prairy" <sinner at escomposlinux.org>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] LastFoot.com VNCSERVER
>
>
> > A Dijous 25 Octubre 2001 04:01 pm, vàreu escriure:
> > > Had anyone use or work with this technology before when it was public?
> I
> > > am interested in the way they set vncserver up via inetd and when the
> > > vncbrowser got to one of these server, it ask for user id & password as
> if
> > > you are login locally.  I got some instructions from the internet but
> does
> > > not seem to help me.  Sorry, I got thick skull...
> >
> > What do you mean 2before, when it was public"? I thought that it still was
> > public.
> >
> > I have used VNC successfully. I have used it to control NT boxes (located
> at
> > a cold, server room) fom my desktop at my office, with a nice coffe at my
> > hands.
> >
> > I have used it both from vnc-client on Windows9x and from a java-enabled
> > browser in Linux.
> >
> > Pros:
> > -it works,
> > -it is great.
> > -it is multi-platform on clients
> > -it is multi-platform on servers
> > -great on intranets
> >
> > Cons:
> > -it is not encripted communicaiton (maybe you can enncript it on a ssh
> tunnel
> > or something
> > -it needs an special port open on your firewall
> > -it is a little slow (or so it felt) through internet
> >
> >
> > I recommend it on firewalled intranets. It is very good.
> >
> >
> >
> > Salut,
> > Sinner
> > --
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> >
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