Benjamin J. Weiss said: > I'm curious why anybody would want to do X forwarding when it seems to me > that VNC would be faster and easier, not to mention more robust (if the > network connection dies, the session is still there on the server, waiting > for me). > > Am I missing something? Is X forwarding better than VNC in some way? It just depends on what you use it for. I have one headless box that is only used to run a server (Qcast tuner, but that isn't important). VNC is installed on it because the server requires a GUI. I have another headless box, running other servers, that I don't generally use VNC on. I don't need the feature of persistent sessions (that's what screen is for :-) and I very seldom use anything GUI on it. Given the option of starting a VNC session and waiting for GNOME to start or just typing "redhat-config-users" into the SSH window I usually use is a no-brainer. -- William Hooper
