Re: ARD vrs VPC
Originally posted by xtekdiver
I use ARD quite a bit. It is actually faster on my 1GHz G4 than running VPC. I use it because my work makes me write in .Net still. I am hoping the new VPC on a G5 will allow me to do this without ARD (the screen redraw is still a bit slow in higher screen resolutions), but on a G4 VPC is really unusable, so ARD works well. I have never had a problem with it so if the update makes it work faster all the better.
Anyone know of a remote client for connecting to Linux?
1. You're talking about RDC, not ARD. ARD is Mac-to-Mac. RDC is many-to-Windows XP/2K Terminal Server.
2. Chicken of the VNC is a Mac OS X client for VNC. (There's also a server version, OSXvnc.) If you're using a standard Linux distribution, you should be able to start a VNC server by typing "vncserver", providing a password then go into Chicken of the VNC and type the hostname and password and the display number (which will be part of the response when you start vncserver). You can kill the vncserver by typing vncserver -kill :1 (for display 1, :2 for display 2, :0 for display 0, etc.). It's best to tunnel it through SSH, but I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
3. Better for Mac to Linux is ssh+X11. If you have X11 on your computer, start it, then in THE TERMINAL THAT COMES UP IN X11, type ssh hostname -X -l username (that's a capital ex, a lower case ell; use an ip address if necessary for the hostname). This will give you the ability to run programs on your Linux computer and have the UI appear on the Mac.
4. Before doing ANY of this, go to your linux box and type man ssh and man vncserver . You should do searches on X tunneling, ssh, and vnc as well on google.