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MS RDP > VNC
The free version of VNC doesn't lock the screen of the remote computer so if anyone is at home, they'll be able to see your desktop and be able to take control if they wanted to. It's a good cross platform solution, but you'll need to spend some money if you want "screen blanking" like MS RDP.
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@Syndication: and live mesh is even better than rdp because it gets around all those firewall issues.
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@Syndication: You should also mention that VNC is very secure. I've used it at work and been able to logon to the VNC session by typing the wrong password. Granted, the wrong password contained the right password, but this would still make brute-force attacks easier.
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@worsethannormal: So is it secure, or isn't it? I think I know what you mean though. From my experience, VNC is limited to 8 character passwords, so as long as the first 8 are correct, it will let you in.
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@Syndication: Pfft.. simple solution is to "blank screen on client" connect, and "logoff when last client disconnects".
We use a tight VNC client to connect to all our order kiosks (via port forward on a rogue linux box behind firewall). These kiosks are deployed @ college and Universities like Cornell U, RIT, and Penn College of Tech. and we've never had an issue w/ malicious comp. science majors screwing w/ them.
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@Syndication: UltraVNC has screen blanking and file transfer. It's been the best VNC client for years. Much better than Tight or any other
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@Syndication:
RDP is better than VNC if you don't need screen sharing. VNC has more lag time than RDP. Reply
RDP is better than VNC if you don't need screen sharing. VNC has more lag time than RDP. Reply
@zombie_batch: agreed, I use RDP to get into about a dozen different computers at two jobs and at home, I've never experienced any lag except on the SQL server that is hosting data for in excess of 200 sites (I'm not actually the SQL admin but I need access to that machine for other things...), so there's pretty much no avoiding that bottleneck when it is experiencing heavy traffic.
We tried using VNC on that SQL server and it was utterly useless.
Also, I have discovered that the DDNS features in DD-WRT are outstanding, just setup a free DynDNS redirect and you are golden for getting to any VPN setup...
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@bpapa9013 - Is now an ego maniac thanks to his new star ->: I only wish that the Windows Mobile 6.1 RDP client would store full profiles, as far as I can tell it will only store the hostname/ip you still have to manually input the user/pass/domain whenever you change servers...
I know there are third party RDP clients for WM that will do it, but I really don't want to pay ~$50 to save 20 key-strokes...
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@Syndication: You guys are lucky, My school has a Websense server which has a crawler that updates and blocks all new proxies. Then the computer starts in Novell I don't even get access to my desktop. Tor does not even work, it sucks.
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