Controlling Mac from PC - XServer?

[Karbon L. Forms]

I have a Macintosh through the house running OSX Panther which is connected by LAN to my PC.

I know I can login to the Mac using a console window but how can I completely remote control it with full graphics etc.

I think we're talking XServer stuff here. Which means software for the mac (an Xserver) and windows (an XServer client)

Am I on the right track? Anyone know what packages would allow this?

I want to do Mac vst development while using my PC.

[Angus_FX]

Hi,

You can use VNC - there are both clients and servers for both platforms.

It's easy to set up, but performance is a bit slow even on a fast LAN (there are optimized VNC clients and servers for Windows, but their cross-compatibility with OSX VNC clients and servers is less than perfect). It's really a bit laggy for editing big text files (at least for a caffeine-head like me), and if you can afford it, spending $100 or so on a decent KVM switch is a good investment (not such a good option if you use a hi-rez digital flat panel... KVM switches for those cost upwards of $400).

The other viable option is to serve your code files from one computer (I would recommend you serve from the Mac), do any of the text editing on the machine connected to the monitor, and only do actual compiles and testing on the other machine.

[Karbon L. Forms]

Hey!

That works! Cheers Angus.

Remains to be seen how usable it'll be though.

Thanks for help.