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[Frost]

Iv'e used the TCP/IP program at work, called DejavuNT from J River.  It is ICE.TCP program that lets us access certain programs written in C on our SCO Unix server.  Can the ICE.TCP also be able to access Linux programs running from another Windows XP based machine?

What are advantages of this over VNC which is open source?

[Bob]

Recent versions of ICE (which contain the dejavu emulator you are talking about) have built in linux terminal emulation. You can run ICE on a XP machine and use it to access programs on the linux machine. The advantages over VNC:

1) You are moving CHARACTERS with ICE, you are moving GRAPHICS with VNC. The result is that you are needlessly moving far more data with VNC to get the same results on the screen.

2) VNC is not by default secure, ICE has build in SSH security.

3) VNC is not always stable (I have used and do use it for specific situations like when I need to get into a console on a windows machine). Depending on versions of the VNC server and VNC viewer it can crash randomly and fail to update the screen properly.