The latter of these departed from its mothership in 2009 and is Fedora's standard VNC application. When using TightVNC, the admin should also install additional software to free up resources.Īdditionally, TightVNC has spawned various offshoots, such as RemoteVNC, TightVNC Portable, TurboVNC, and TigerVNC. The admin can reduce the system resources required for the Windows platform ( Figure 3) by installing the DF Mirage Driver Hooks on the server side.įigure 3: On Windows, access to the VNC server often requires modifications to the firewall.
In version 2.0, the program introduced autoscaling, adjusting the size of the display in the viewer to that of the remote machine, regardless of the client's resolution. With TightVNC, users control the desktops of remote machines. To heighten security, the developers recommend tunneling connections over SSH. TightVNC encrypts passwords individually complete encryption is on the agenda. Users can watch movies and play DirectX games, even with a reduced image refresh rate on broadband connections. This is also how it copes with low bandwidths. The tool focuses on compression, specifically using JPEG and zlib. TightVNC is compatible with the client or server components of other VNC implementations. The software can also be installed via the package manager of most distributions.
Since the Java viewer has been around, there is no longer any separate Linux version of the client. Figure 2: TightVNC over a SSH tunnel with PuTTY.
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