4. Remote connection with VNC
Once you have connection through PPP to remote machines, you can use the VNC to display remote machines on your local display.
- The VNC is at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
- Get VNC rpms from rpmfind.
- The best Window manager for VNC is QVWM which is like MS Windows 98/NT/2000 interface, get it from http://www.qvwm.org.
- After starting vncserver, you can start the vncviewer program on clients like MS Windows, Mac or Linux.
- See also the List of X11 Windows Managers.
Compiling qvwm on Solaris : On Solaris you should install the following packages which you can get from http://sun.freeware.com - xpm, imlib, jpeg, libungif, giflib, libpng, tiff. And you can download the binary package for solaris from http://www.qvwm.org.
Or you can download the qvwm source for solaris from http://www.qvwm.org and compile it using gcc.
Troubleshooting compile: You should put unsigned long before arg in usleep() usleep((unsigned long) 10000)
4.1 Microsoft "MS Outlook" Email from PPP
Method 1 :
- At office, start VNC server on your Windows NT/2000 desktop.
- Connect from home using modem via PPP.
- Once the PPP is established, you can start the vncviewer program. Just type /usr/bin/vncviewer.
- Enter your office Windows NT/2000 desktop's hostname and vnc password
- The entire desktop of your remote office Windows NT/2000 is displayed. Now you can read your MS Outlook email.
Method 2 :
- Bynari InsightClient Go here click on products->Insight Connector Outlook. Client for MS Exchange server and MS Outlook,
- CrossOver Office has MS Outlook,
- Ximian Connector for MS Outlook/Exchange,
- Ximian Evolution MS Outlook killer,
- Mahogany rated best
- GNOME Balsa mail client rated 2nd best
- KDE KMail rated 3rd best
- PINE rated 4th
Method 3 : Web based
- POSTACI rated best
- SquirrelMail rated 2nd best
- IMP Horde rated 3rd best ( horde rpm rated 4th best
- imp rpm)
- 6XMailer
- Netmania mail
- NOCC
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