Sorted
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the upgrade to Mandrake 9.1 hadn’t gone as smoothly as I would have hoped.
But after the rain, comes sunshine: we can now connect to the internet (albeit via a Windows box on the LAN), print, scan, listen to music and even do the accounts, in Windows while Linux is running, thanks to the magic of VNC. VNC, which is free software, displays the desktop from one machine on the display of another. It’s as simple as that. Until we get a screen switch (which allows you to switch the keyboard, VDU and mouse between different computers) it seems to be our best option for running Linux for the important stuff (web, email, word processing, graphics etc) and Windows for the stuff I can’t do in Linux — namely Intenet connectivity, MS Money and Quicken. No I’m not ready to use Gnucash yet.
A tip for Zonealarm users: if you want to be able to share your internet connection (via Windows Internet Connection Sharing), the Internet Zone security level must be set to medium — visible but protected mode. It’s either that or upgrade to Zonealarm Pro, which costs cash money.
Oh , did I mention that VNC is free?