Citrix vs. VNC

[Jeff Mings]

    I have been using a tweaked version of VNC called Tridiavnc at 
http://www.tridiavnc.com/ .  It's been a great way for me to administer 
Windoze boxes from my Linux machines, but for plain remote control over 
slow links, pcAnywhere is slightly faster, because it's able to use the 
native Windoze directdraw routines rather than something more universal 
which will work with multiple OSes.  I haven't implemented any solutions 
wherein multiple clients are serviced by a single Windoze server.

-Jeff Mings


Jon Reynolds wrote:

>Warren and list,
>
>	We talked about 3months ago about VNC and citrix. At that time you said
>that you had people accessing the network from different geographical
>locations with speed comparable to citrix. I have been given the ok to
>try and implement something similiar here because of the costs of
>licensing citrix and M$.What I am faced with is this:
>
>I have a filemaker 5.5 server running on OS X and the filemaker client
>running on the citrix server(SMP box with two 1 ghz procs and 1 gig of
>ECC RAM). At present we have 50 users of which at any one time 35 are
>connected to our citrix server serving up a virtual desktop and a large
>filemaker pro 5 database. Some users are in Seattle (we are in Alaska)
>and others are spread out over 5 sites within the city of Anchorage.
>
>	Is it possible to be able to do all of this using VNC, and will the
>speed be noticably slower using VNC as opposed to Citrix and what
>version of VNC could accomplish this? Also, how is printing handled? I
>have used the basic VNC server/client and it has slow redraws of the
>screen sometimes even forcing me to force redraw the screen. Citrix has
>been extremly impressive in its performance even when loaded with the
>maximum amount of users. Is VNC capable of this?
>
>Sorry for the long question, just wanted to try and give the list enough
>information as to my situation.
>
>Thank You,
>
>Jon Reynolds
>
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