On 28 May 2015 at 16:00, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu 28 May 2015 15:45 -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
The major requirements are -- it's gonna work on a LAN, needs to be responsive, and the should exist a decent windows client.
I think VNC is a bit too cumbersome, although there might be a better client out there.
What is cumbersome?
I've found VNC to be pretty trivial to walk non technical users through, even children. If you control the network around the Linux machine you can open a path to it and even point a domain to it. So no messing around with IP addresses or firewalls on their side.
He says "even children," as if they're tough to teach. Now if you'd said "even grandparents," that would be a selling point. I've always used VNC, and have no big issues with it ... but I'm willing to admit that "cumbersome" is a reasonably accurate description. The next time I need such a thing, I'll take Myles' suggestion and look at xrdp. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com