'''Virtual Network Computing'''

VNC is a wonderful, truly cross-platform tool for using remote computers, similar to "PC Anywhere". It uses a standard [IP] connection, some versions can also use [ssh] for security. You can use the remote computer just like your own. It works fine with all kinds of [X] displays, all current [Windows] versions, ...

You can even use any [Java]-enabled Web browser as a client, because any VNC server will automatically send the necessary Java applet to the browser.

On Windows you become a second user of the graphical display - thus interfering with the person sitting at the computer, while the server version on [Unix] creates additional, invisible X displays which are only visible on the remote side. So on Unix computers several VNC servers can run at the same time without interfering with any other session on the same machine.

Note that the latest versions are now from RealVNC Ltd ( http://www.realvnc.com/ ),
as AT&T has closed its Cambridge Labs. ''It can still be had from http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/ .''

RealVNC has nice enhancements, including automatic configuraton that tunes the encodings to suit the available bandwith.

See also http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/

[CL] published some of the first popular articles
about VNC [http://www.phaseit.net/claird/comp.windows.misc/VNC.html].

[TkVNC]


[Mac Cody]'s doing fascinating work binding [Tcl] to VNC 
in such combinations as [TclRFB], described in 
"Create a VNC system with tclRFB"
[http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vnc/].



[stevel] had good experiences with RealVNC.

[DRH] recommends tightVNC [http://www.tightvnc.com].
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Over on the [Android] page, someone mentioned that, using (client) VNC on
a Unix machine, one could test [GUI] applications running on any
platform with a VNC client.

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