[X Servers] Running headless at a co-lo

[Jacob Jay - Enigma]

On 17/5/03 9:54 pm, Chris Long wrote:

> I've been using Apple Remote Desktop for about 6 months to do this sort
> of thing, though the first server was not in another building but in
> another room, because I was tired of walking down the hall. :-)
[snip]
> commencement ceremonies.  The connection seems a bit slow from the DSL
> at my house, but on campus it works extremely well.  I don't know what
> your network speed is, but you can tweak the settings for performance
[snip]

I also use ARD and have found the best way to get around the sluggish
performance when you're on DSL is to use the black and white option, also
full screen works a lot better on slower machines. In fact I've used it over
dialup like this.

A free alternative is VNC (at the server end it runs as an application,
search versiontracker for the various versions), although no B+W option, 256
colours works okay on low bandwidth... VNC doesn't have any of the
management functions that ARD does but these are not very useful unless you
have lots of computers to control and once you've got screen control you can
do anything you need to anyway. One point at which VNC falls down is as it
runs as an app you can't log in and out using it.

// Jacob