> At the last Westside meeting I was introduced to FreeS/WAN and it looked > like a pretty cool VNC server. So I finally go to play with it and > discover that what yum installed was RealVNC from the original team at > AT&T labs in the UK. It also looks pretty cool and comes with free Win9x > clients which could be a real advantage. > > So as anybody tried them both? Any advice on which to learn first? I was under the impression that FreeS/WAN was a VPN protocol and VNC is a remote desktop viewer (similar to PC Anywhere). So you would setup FreeS/WAN to allow you remote access to your network and then run VNC to connect to a specific machine within that network.