[KLUG Members] vnc over internet recommendations

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I was looking for recommended ways to use VNC over the internet.  
> Who has success stories, gotchas, etc., they can share?

Make sure you get a nice recent version that supports compression,
otherwise the latency makes it pretty slow.  

I regularly VNC over a
Me<---->11Mbps<---->768Kbps<-->Internet<-->1.5Mbps<--->1000Mbps<---->512/256Kbps<--->100Mbps<--->Them 
series of hops and it is quite usable;  although remoteing IE is always
a challange since it has problems painting the screen without the 'page
area'.   Every other app works fine.

> My first question was about the best way to do it securely, tunnel it or
> use some sort of internal encryption?

Tunnel over SSH.  Compress the VNC connection (called "tight" VNC
sometimes).  You can compress the SSH tunnel but it is less effective.