[ale] vmware remote display vs vnc on the ubuntu box vs xming on my Windoze machine

[James Taylor]

My experience is that NX is enormously better than VNC.
I don't even consider VNC to be a viable option once I started using NX
-jt 
 

James Taylor
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>>> "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> 5/28/2011   09:23 AM >>> 
Hmmm. Interesting.  I am the same point I began.

FreeNX or VNC same thing.   I was hoping for a better X11 experience but I
guess not on a WAN.

Looks like FreeNX is slightly better than VNC.

I am surprised that XDMCP does not allow to connect/reconnect to the same
session once disconnected.

-Narahari

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:01 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>  On 05/27/2011 11:13 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > JD  thank you for that great answer.
> >
> > Here is the setup.
> >
> > Work PC runs Win7 64 bit with 12GB RAM.  On this box I run VMWare
> > Workstation 7 which runs Ubuntu 11.04 64bit version.
> > Runs fine.
> >
> > Home Laptop runs Win7 32 bit with 3GB RAM.  I connect from this laptop
> > to the VMWare Ubuntu11.04 I just mentioned above.
> >
> > Currently the mode of connections is VNC client on my Laptop to the VM.
> >
> > I am trying to configure XMing on the laptop and use Putty to connect to
> > the VM in the WorkPlace.  I want to use Putty to do X-Forwarding and
> > thats where I am trying to get suggestions.
> >
> > Your input on running PuppyLinux inside a VM on the Laptop  is very
> > interesting and can help me avoid XMing.
> > Running PuppyLinux within a VM on my laptop might work, but does it work
> > well with only 512Mb of RAM well ?
> >
> > I will give it a shot for the PuppyLinux stuff.  Is XDMCP almost like
> > VNC ? (lets keep aside security for a second) as in it runs the app on
> > the Work VM but projects display back to the VM on the home Laptop VM.
> >
> > If I disconnect the XDMCP session is the app running on the remote box
> > going to run even after I disconnect XDMCP ?
>
> This is a WAN connection.  Using X/Windows over a WAN connection won't
> be enjoyable. Even over very fast WAN links, X/Windows doesn't work
> well. Forget about it over home broadband connections. I'm positive that
> I mentioned that.  You want FreeNX.
>
>
> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/09/07/running-remote-desktops-and-remote-applications
>
> Puppy runs in 128MB of RAM.  TinyCore runs in 64MB of RAM, but both of
> these would provide an X/Server - - over the WAN, that will not be
> acceptable.
>
> Forget about Putty. You don't need it unless there's something else you
> haven't explained ...
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