On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:46:10AM +0100, David Simon Cooper wrote:
Tim Green wrote:
On 5/25/06, chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas about, or is there a web site that will tell me about, the relative speeds of different ways of running X applications across the internet?
Investigate VNC - it was designed for this.
Hope this helps, Tim.
I use the free version of VNC for things like this and use custom port numbers which make it a little harder to sniff. I only use it in small bursts and I ensure that I never type passwords or enter user ID's into web browsers whilst using the connection. Keystrokes other than the initial password request during connection, are unencrypted.
Err, I think you'll find the initial password also travels over the net unencrypted. It certainly used to.
Cheers,