anyone using VNC?

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I have a mac G5, and want to use a G3 as a remote. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? I need some advice on how to do this.

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I do this all the time. I use VNC Server on my main G4 in the studio, and use my iBook or Powerbook in the Vocal Booth using VNC client. Never seems to be a problem.

Install the VNC Server on your G5, and the Client on the other. You simply put in the IP address of the server from the client and that's it. You can even view it from a web browser, but it is not as reliable or fast.
 
I used to do this back when I used my PowerBook (Pismo) sound hardware to do recording. Surprisingly good quality as far as built-in sound hardware goes, but the 30G IBM hard drive I had in it at the time was loud as h***. (Since then, I've had the loud drive replaced under warranty, then replaced that with a larger drive on at least one occasion, but....)

Anyway, I would put it in one room and steer it with an iBook in the other room (with a whisper-quiet hard drive, but no audio input worth using). Worked pretty well, though a bit sluggish across 11Mbps Airport.
 
There is always the long monitor cable and wireless mouse/keyboard. Put it outside the door. :)
 
Chicken of the VNC: I set up everything on the host correctly, I believe, but when i try to connect with 0 set as the display, it gives me the "incompatible version" thing. When I try to connect with 1 set as the display or higher, it just tells me "connection refused." What is the deal?

very frustrating.

Maybe, there's another free client I could try?
 
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