<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>I'm not a huge fan either, but according to the question they are happy with the speed of VNC in their environment.<div>Scott</div><div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@WittsEnd.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 1, 2014 1:16:54 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure than VNC server?<br><br>On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 12:20 -0400, Scott Plante wrote:<br>> You could always run VNC over an SSH tunnel. You could create a batch<br>> file that starts plink and your VNC client.<br>> <br>> <br>> Google also turned up this:<br>> http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html<br>> Looks like he built a VNC with SSL and SSH tunnel options.<br>> <br>VNC is horribly slow. Even RDP is faster. VNC over ssh with<br>compression is somewhat better (in addition to be much more secure) but<br>still sucks unless you have a lot of bandwidth. About the only thing<br>slower, in my personal experience, has been raw X11 forwarding over ssh<br>(I don't even consider X11/XDM over live network due to security<br>issues).<br><br>> Scott<br><br>Regards,<br>Mike<br></div></div></div></body></html>