Jeremy Brown said: > Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > >>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? >> >> > > VNC requires root access on the server to set up. I don't see any reason why it would. It doesn't use any privledged ports. > VNC is also limited > to one user at a time. Huh? Multiple users can look at the same VNC session and multiple VNC sessions can be started on a single machine. -- William Hooper