On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:11:28 -0500 (CDT) "Wayne Johnson" <waynej at dccmn.com> wrote: > Another option would be to run putty and piggyback VNC on it. I get > to my home laptop from work that way all the time. > > VNC uses X11, and you don't need to install the X server on your > remote machine. > Quick question, but what if you don't run a GUI desktop. My understanding is that VNC only works with a GUI desktop, not a console. The system I connect to whenever I'm outside of my home network has X installed, but not configured. I did not ever plan on using a GUI desktop, as it takes up valuable resources on an ancient P166 system. -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list