that's all well and good if I'm connecting from a machine where I can access a unix shell, but what If I'm connecting from any other variety of os (namely, the windows machines here on campus) thanks justin James Spinti wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 03:41 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: > >>Why would it be a bad idea to open, say, 5801 to the internet? That's >>all I would need to open. I have realVNC running a mini http server >>that pops up a java applet to run vnc. This is nice because then I can >>run the remote desktop from anywhere that has a web browser with java. > > > VNC runs unencrypted. You are better using X forwarding and compression > with secure shell. For example: ssh -X -C username at host > Then, from the $ there, run vncviewer 192.168.1.1:0 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group 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