Hi Josh.

I am a big fan of Remote Desktop. For what it's worth, I use Linux 
wherever I can, but, Remote Desktop is one microsoft product that 
really, actually, works. It allows me to work from home one day a week, 
and it is more efficient and reliable than VNC. The Remote Desktop 
system is also more intelligent than VNC... it makes sense (for the way 
I use it) to lock down the local machine and re-direct it to the Remote 
client. With VNC on the other hand, the local machine is still active, 
and people can 'see' what you are doing remotely.

Still, I also use VNC, and particularly, TightVNC. For one reason in 
particular: It can expose the VNC desktop in a web browser using a Java 
applet.

This allows you to browse in to a VNC desktop from anywhere, without 
having to install any 'different' client software (you need a 
Java-enabled browser).

http://www.tightvnc.com/doc/java/README.txt

So, there is no Microsoft software I actively recommend to people other 
than Remote Desktop, and, of the VNC's, I use TightVNC for the web-based 
interface (although it is possible other VNC's have a web-based 
interface too).

Rolf

Josh Koffman wrote:
> Hi all. I have a unique situation that I think can be solved via VNC,
> I'm just not sure what the best way will be.
>
> I have an application that won't work over a wireless network
> connection as it's very picky about latencies. What I'd like to do is
> run the application on a wired computer and control that computer via
> a wireless VNC connection. It should work as I know other people have
> done it in the past.
>
> Here's the wrinkle. The wired computer is a Mac that runs the program
> in question in WinXP via Parallels. I'm not sure which OS should run
> the VNC server. OSX has a built in server (which would be convenient)
> while WinXP would require more software installs. Anyone have any
> recommendations about that?
>
> Also, we had a discussion about VNC clients back in 2007 and it seems
> folks were then using RealVNC, UltraVNC, and TightVNC as Windows
> clients. Does anyone have any recommendations about the relative
> benefits or problems I might run into with any of those?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -j
>   

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