Amiga and VNC

[darksun9210]

last night i was trawling through my amiga active cover CD's looking for a TCP IP stack that didn't time out after 30 mins, and found a VNC client for the amiga. after grining stupidly and thinking "oh my m*****f****** god, how cool is that" i was wondering, after repeated "software error - suspend or reboot" if anyone else has got it to work?

setup:-
standard (unexpanded) A1200 with pcmcia network card running miami and OS3.0

networked to a PC running VNC viewer i use to look at a couple of other PCs on the network.

is it just the fact that i am running out of ram? (600k left after loading TCP/IP stack) has anyone else used this and to what degrees of success?

[darksun9210]

right.

point 1. have lots of memory free. i'm guessing about a meg to hold the screen image in ram? (non gfx card)
(must get accelerator back)

point 2. FPU possibly required.

i was trying to run AmiVNC and there is a version there for planar screenmodes, as well as a version for chunky and planar modes, as i wanted to export to the PC i was using the planar version. maybe thats why you have a mess of colour?

beyond this you guys have shown its not impossible :-)
kinda glad its not just me who plays with this stuff. :crazy:
mhahaha (ideas for remote connection into home network, and then vnc into amiga from work... )

[darksun9210]

look up stuff about VPN (virtual private networking) this should give you an encrypted connection (VPN Tunnel) to your machine and stop anyone being able to sniff data packets for unencoded password data that may be sent.
once the VPN is set up, then you should be able to access the machine as though you are on the same network as it is.

do a quick google for VPN, it should be pretty self explanitory, especially as you are using winXP(pro i hope)

then all you need is a VNC server running on the machine you want to connect to (Home), and the VNC client running on the machine to want use it with (Work). run the VNC viewer and type the IP address of the home machine and ta-daa! it works! or at least thats the theory

even works across dial up.