[nzlug] Best approach for remote-admin of a Debian box

[Martin Bähr]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:04:29PM +1300, Cameron Bradley wrote:
> X via SSH tunnelling is slow, in many cases slower than
> VNC... only way I can think of.

does vnc encrypt the communication?
if not then the comparison makes no sense.
if ssh slows down X then it will do so with vnc as well.

and i am curious where you git the impression that vnv is fast.
even within the office, connecting to a vnc server on windows is quite
noticably slower than local, while remote X to a different machine is
not really distinguishable from local. (that's anecdotal evidence, and
naturally, different OS and different hardware make that comparison
mostly meaningless)

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