Good VNC/Remote Control Software?

[orty]

Any recommendations on good/free/cheap remote control/VNC software? I'm looking for something that will enable me to control the various systems I have scattered around the house. I'll be controlling them from my Win2k box, and the systems are another Win2k box, a Win98 box, and a Linux box. Any ideas on the best way to go about this (they're all on a 100mbs network)? Any software recommendations? I looked at Tight VNC, and will try that a bit.

I don't know much about VNC, but would I have to have two different pieces of client software to access my Windows boxes and my linux box?

Thanks for you help!
-orty

 

[gsaldivar]

To maintain compatability across the board, including Linux - I think VNC is going to be the only game in town, unless you want to install more than one software package for this purpose.

 

[orty]

<< To maintain compatability across the board, including Linux - I think VNC is going to be the only game in town, unless you want to install more than one software package for this purpose. >>



I'd rather install as few packages as possible, so I'm assuming VNC would be the best way to go, too...any good ideas on which VNC software to use?

 

[Heisenberg]

I use this VNC software on my 2k box to control my Redhat 7.2 box. You can also (I believe) run it as a server on Windows. My linux box has a separate vnc server program ('vncserver') that I use.

 

[Workin']

I use VNC on my Win2k, WinXP, Mac OS9, and Red Hat 7.2 machines. All you need is the client and server installed on each machine, then you can look at any other machine from any other machine. You don't need a separate client on each machine for each OS, i.e., your Windows box only needs the Windows client to view the other machines regardless of the OS those machines are running.

Can't beat it for free.

 

[Jackhamr60504]

I agree. I use AT&T's VNC to manage remote servers as well as machines on my home network. You can even run the NT version as a service.

 

[orty]

right on...thanks for all your help, folks! I'll give this a try later.
-orty

 

[YayYay]

How are the speeds on these things? I remember using a 233 as a server with a really cheap 2meg 2d card and the client from a 366 celeron and man that thing was slow. To scroll from top to bottom on a average website would take like 30 seconds, its not the fact that its slow, its very laggy. The mouse would bounce all over the place and keys wont show up second later. It was on a 100mbs lan. Will it be different now that the the 366 now at 450 with a radeon 32ddr card is the server?

 

[mrbass]

http://www.tightvnc.com/ anyone tried this free one yet? Suppose to be better than vnc. Who knows. For windows I still love radmin.com it is $35 but well worth it. Thing which drove me nuts about vnc is your color depth and resolution are dependent upon the vnc server host. That blows the big one.