We've tried this with our servers, and we find VNC support on Macs 
(servers and clients) to be pretty buggy.  The same client worked 
fine on one PowerMac, but not on the next.  Some of our mac servers 
worked as VNC servers, some only showed part of a screen.  We gave up.

Mark

>I have run Squeak over VNC.  As far as I can tell, as long as
>Morphic doesn't change any bits on-screen, it doesn't generate
>any traffic and it doesn't matter how much updating it does
>internally.
>
>You may find the encoder at http://www.tightvnc.org/
>helpful: it compresses better and uses less CPU to do so.
>It falls back on regular VNC if needed.
>
>Cheers,
>Thomas.
>
>On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:23:56AM -0500, Les Tyrrell wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net>
> > To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:19 AM
> > Subject: Dumb question about headless & Nebraska
> >
> >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > This is probably a dumb question but...is it possible to set up 
>a headless
> > > Squeak that runs a Nebraska server?  I was thinking about 
>running a headless
> > > Swiki server and being able to use Nebraska to administer it 
>would be kinda
> > > cool. :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> > If not, and you have the bandwidth to support it, give VNC a try.  VNC used
> > to be called a frame-buffer protocol, and for things that don't 
>update their
> > contents frequently it is usable even over relatively slow 
>connections.  But I
> > believe
> > that Morphic may have enough updates going on in the background that this
> > approach
> > would be unusable over a slow connection.  It's easy enough to 
>find out, anyway.
> >
> > For the more ambitious, try implementing the VNC server protocol in Squeak.
> >
> > - les
> >
> >
> >
> >

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