VNC

Thanks for the tip with tight VNC -- this looks cool. I will now have to upgrade all of my boxes (solaris, linux, mac osx, win xp, openbsd) to it....I cant live without VNC, greatest thing since sliced bread. Now if Epson would only listen to the griping and whining and shut me up by delivering a working driver for Mac OS X .......... Jim

I recently saw a VNC server for mac os x on versiontracker.com. ...

Yes. I got this working some time ago - but not rootless. I have XonX (Xdarwin) working. It takes over the whole desktop - so no Aqua applications running side-by-side ... but it works. I ssh to my Linux box, set the DISPLAY variable, and everything just works - I can even run KDE and Enlightenment. In fact, I just run my .xstartup script so I get a bunch of xterms and...

All has run well with my new Mac mini until the last two days when I started messing with the network ing. I first lost all contact with the windoze boxes but solved that by spotting that I had set the firewall to 'Allow only essential services'. A change and it all came back! Next 'mistake' was to try to set up VNC (Vineserver on the Mac, tight and UltraVNC on the...

at a time. So the closest you can do is install Fusion or Parallels, and run multiple virtual machines in bridge mode with VNC enabled, so one user can connect to Mac and do something, other users can connect to e.g. XP or Ubuntu and run Photoshop or GIMP there and so on. ...

based, I gotta correct my statement to say, yes, you can do everything you can with a regular VNC client plus a whole lot more... you just can't get it free. ...

For the record, I think you can use ARD with Windows clients, but they won't support all the features (because they are running VNC). from apple: http://images.apple.com/remotedesktop/images/remoteassisthero20060321.jpg

whereas with VNC you're relegated to connecting to each computer individually. ...

Chicken of the VNC can be found here. ...

Do you mean "VNC" instead of "VLC"? Could it be as simple as changing your terminal command to "vnc ..."? I thought VLC was a video player.