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Re: VNC



>>>>>>>> On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Yuval wrote:

 Yuval> guy keren wrote:
 Yuval>
 Yuval> > On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Mack wrote:
 Yuval> >
 Yuval> > > Whenever someone clicks his 'MS'button on his desktop,
 Yuval> > > the next free PC is allocated to him and sent to his
 Yuval> > > display. If people don't keep it open for no reason, you
 Yuval> > > can probably cut the number of your MS pc's by half. Most
 Yuval> > > people will not keep it open for no reason, since it will
 Yuval> > > waste their memory while being left iconified instead of
 Yuval> > > closed. Its a large bitmap.
 Yuval> >
 Yuval> > well, you're being ultimatly optimistic. when people have
 Yuval> > a window open, they do not close it just "to be nice to
 Yuval> > everyone else".
 Yuval> >
 Yuval> > but, the proper solution comes (or shall come) when NT will
 Yuval> > be able to support multiple desktops properly. this can be
 Yuval> > done in two ways:
 Yuval> >
 Yuval> > 1. install a product that adds this support (soemthing with
 Yuval> > a name similar to cyberix.
 Yuval> >
 Yuval> > 2. wait till NT 5.0, where microsoft is said to add
 Yuval> > cyberix's technology and thus support multi desktops
 Yuval> > directly in their product. THEN it might be usefull.
 Yuval>
 Yuval>  There are two commercial solutions for remote connection to
 Yuval> an NT. I don't know if they support Unix. One is NTerprise
 Yuval> which I've had the displeasure of using. It's slow, and bugful
 Yuval> (and ofcourse it runs NT). There's Cytrix which is supposed to
 Yuval> be better (Microsoft licensed their technology after saying
 Yuval> they had their own to get the price down). Hydra (NT 5.0
 Yuval> remote connection) is supposed to be based on Cytrix. I've
 Yuval> heard some pretty good things of Hydra, but then again as long
 Yuval> as it's in the labs it usually is good.

I know 2 commercial NT multi-user -> unix solutions. WinDD
(www.tektronix.com) and Ntrigue (www.insignia.com). I have
experience with Ntrigue and I can recommend it.

thks,
borik
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