I run the VNC server off a headless/mouseless/keyboardless netbsd/alpha 
box, which I boot with a serial console. The VNC server itself is an X 
server; even if X won't run locally (which it won't on turbochannel alphas) 
VNC will start up and give you an X desktop. I use the mac client, which is 
ok, but not as nice as the PC or unix clients.
	MacX 2.0 is nice, too, definitely more polished than MI/X or eXodus. I 
prefer VNC, though. Over my 10 Mb/s ethernet it seems more responsive than 
any of the other solutions.

Gregory

--On Sunday, October 22, 2000 8:27 PM -0500 Bob Nestor 
<rnestor@augustmail.com> wrote:

> If you can't run X on the desktop (or on any local terminal) I'm not sure
> VNC will be much help.  All it seems to do is give one remote control of
> a local screen/keyboard/mouse (or local control of a remote system).
> It's capable of working with many different systems (Windows, MacOS,
> UNIX), but isn't a replacement for an X Server.  You'd really need
> something like M/IX, eXodus, MacTen or MacX I think.  MacX 1.5 or 1.7 can
> sometimes be found on eBay or at local garage/sidewalk sales and although
> it doesn't do the inital XDM-like login there is a freeware utility that
> can handle this.  Version 2.0 includes this feature.
>
> -bob