[ILUG] low bandwidch X forwarding protocol?

[Connolly Owen (IE)]

God forbid I should say this, but could you not run reflections/Xdesktop
through windows and serve it over your Citrix pipe?  There is also
Citrix for Solaris available...

Cheers,


ojc

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On 
> Behalf Of Conor Daly
> Sent: 26 October 2006 07:29
> To: ILUG
> Subject: [ILUG] low bandwidch X forwarding protocol?
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> At work we are about to run a test of a remote access server. 
>  The proposed GUI forwarding method is citrix based on its 
> low bandwidth consumption.  However we will have full network 
> access from linux clients. X forwarding and VNC are 
> apparently much more bandwidth intensive.  Are there any free 
> protocols out there that will let me access my work desktop
> (FC5) with as low bandwidth consumption as citrix?
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Conor
> 
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