Virtual Network Computing Sangmi Lee Oct,25,2000 Florida State University

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University What is VNC? Virtual Network Computing. Remote display system to view a computer from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University What are key Features? Small and simple Platform-independent No state is stored at the viewer Sharable

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University VNC features Collaborative Visualization Event handling Java viewer Secure VNC using SSH CORBA interface

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University VNC screenshots A Windows machine being viewed from a native X viewer. A Windows desktop being used from within Netscape on a Unix machine

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University VNC screenshots An X desktop being viewed from a native PC viewer An X desktop being viewed from Microsoft Internet Explorer on a PC.

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University VNC screenshots A Unix desktop being accessed from a native Macintosh viewer A Unix desktop being accessed from a Macintosh using Java A Windows desktop being accessed from a Macintosh using Java.

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University VNC in Distributed classroom VNC Server Hand-held device Student VNC Client Instructor VNC Client Network - Unix - Windows NT - Macintosh - Hand-held device

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University VNC in Distributed classroom Lecture tool in the distributed classroom Collaboration tool for group of students Instructor - Monitor - Hand-held device Student - Monitor (Unix, Windows, Macintosh) - Java capable browser - Hand-held device

Oct,25,2000Sangmi Lee Florida State University Applying VNC Using Open source code Visualization server module Improved (multi-cast) performance for VNC