On Nov 16, 2003, at 7:55 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:

>> 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.

Yep. I clearly misunderstood what a VNC connection does. It is much 
more like a graphical version of telnet than it is like FreeS/WAN. You 
don't need a VPN to use VNC securely, however. It turns out it will run 
over SSH.