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 :

1. At office, start VNC server on your Windows NT/2000 desktop.
2. Connect from home using modem via PPP.
3. Once the PPP is established, you can start the vncviewer program. Just type /usr/bin/vncviewer.
4. Enter your office Windows NT/2000 desktop's hostname and vnc password
5. 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