"Here to there" wrote in message
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We have a mix of Linux, Windows, Solaris, etc machines at my home
and office. When it comes to outstanding convenience and price ( free! )
nothing beats VNC.

Given your criteria, I'd have to agree with you. HOWEVER... I've used VNC
plenty, and there are numerous minor 'quirks' where parts of the screen
don't get updated correctly. For connecting Windows machines to other
Windows machines, the Microsoft 'Remote Desktop' facility is, in my
experience, more reliable and robust (it lets you control far more of what
gets 'stripped away' from the controlled machine, besides just the desktop
wallpaper that VNC will). (The server side is included with Windows XP for
the price of the OS, and the client is free for all platforms, including
UNIX machines.)

VNC does have some nice goodies that remote desktop doesn't -- the built-in
'web server' feature is really great. I've run some Windows machines with
both VNC and remote desktop enabled.

---Joel Kolstad