> I am not sure why anyone wuld use VNC rather than xdmcp. I am > willin to be enlightened. 1.) bandwith ! Try to use XDMCP( X Protocol) on slow modem connection.... and do it again with VNC. 2.) XDMCP is a kind of authentication protocol for XDM login manager. The protocol used by X Apps is X-Protocol, which is very bandwith-hungry and it is , by my opinion, totally not optimized for Network usage. YEs - there are a few things that you can use with X-Protocol, like compression , but they are too hard to be implemented in real "Terminal Server" behaviour. 3.) RDP ( the protocol used in MS Terminal Server) is very light and consumes very low bandwith - no more than 5-6 k/s. VNC protocol is light too and its bandwith usage is around the same as in RDP. So, VNC is the only present existing candidate (as protocol) for implementing "Terminal Server" in Linux/Unix OpenSource World. There are 2-3 projects, which you can find on sourceforge, that try to implement it, but a month ago there werent usable yet. Cheers, Ivaylo Toshev MCP,SAIR Linux/GNU LCP -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
