which VNC package

[eyec]

tightvnc or ultravnc?
anyone have experience with either?
any pros or cons for each?

tia

 

[grasshopper75]

I find that although ultravnc has file transfer and chat facilities, tight vnc is just quicker and more simple. Ultra vnc can be really slow even internally. Also its a bit clunky using the ultravnc interface whereas tightvnc is very simple. Tightvnc

 

[acl03]

What about RealVNC?



Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Rick998]

A study at work a year ago considered RealVNC, TightVNC and UltraVNC (plus Remote Desktop Sharing and NetMeeting).

Both TightVNC and UltraVNC were OK but, at the time, the developer version of TightVNC (which include file sharing) was found to be too prone to crashing and UltraVNC was a little too quirky and unreliable for us.

We did a preliminary roll-out of RealVNC to 1200 PC's for additional testing then ended up doing a full roll-out of RealVNC to another 4000 PC's after selecting it for the combination of reliability, speed and ease-of-use.

I've been testing TightVNC and UltraVNC again just recently and found they have both improved... but not enough for us to consider changing from RealVNC at work. At home though, I think I'll be changing to UltraVNC... I prefer its interface.

Hope this helps...

 

[acl03]

One problem i've had with RealVNC is that sometimes it locks up both the local and remote keyboard (not the mouse), and i need to reboot the user's machine to get it back.

Has anyone experienced this?



Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Rick998]

Hmmm... I've never experienced this with RealVNC nor heard of anyone else at work having problems like this. We use v3.3.7. Are you using one of the later releases?

 

[acl03]

We're using 4.0



Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Rick998]

Thanks... I think I'll avoid updating <grin>.