Subject: Re: ssh -X versus VNC
bryan@ak.net
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 21:39:42 AKST
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:34:38PM -0900, Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net> wrote:
>
> Anyway, my question is, what would be the advantages of using VNC versus
> just 'ssh -X'? I don't need to see my whole desktop, and I'm on a local
> network which is firewalled off from the internet. Both machines are
> RedHat 7.3, so Windows/Linux issues are not a problem. Do I have any
> reason to use one over the other?
Pardon me for not answering the question :), but do you need
either one? If you're on a protected local network, then security
isn't a big concern, so ssh is superfluous (unless, of course, there
are other users on the LAN you don't want to see your X session).
VNC is a bandwidth hog.
It's pretty simple to use X's innate ability to display a program's
output on a remote computer. This is what I've done for most of
the years since I started using Linux.
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