DESCRIPTION

JollysFastVNC is a secure ARD and VNC client.

AIM to become the best and most secure VNC client on the Mac.

update:Some actually think it already has reached this goal.

KEY FEATURES

1. •Fast.
   

2. •Secure - SSH tunneling, SSL, SOCKS support inbuilt.
   

3. •Mac login and keyboard support.
   

4. •Multiple connections, Fullscreen, Multimonitor support.
   

5. •SmartZoom for viewing large remote desktops.
   

6. •International keyboard support
   

7. •Reverse connections including automated NatPNP / UPnP support.
   

8. •WakeOnLan support.
   

9. •Global/Specific hierachical preferences.
   

10. •Bonjour including autoconnection to bonjour hosts.
    

11. •Remote cursor support - including smartzoom movement.
    

12. •Automatic pasteboard syncronisation.
    

13. •vnc:// and jfvnc:// url schemes for opening vnc connections from other programs.
    

14. •VNC encodings ZRLE, Tight, zlib, rre, hextile, raw, copyrect, resolution change, pixelformat change, lastrect and some more.
    

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5

DOWNLOAD THE PUBLIC ALPHA VERSION: JollysFastVNC.0.98.50.(928701).dmg

My definition of alpha means that the app will get more features (beta’s are feature frozen) and things might not work. It should not crash though.

Version 0.98.50 (928701) Wed Oct 14 10:32:52 CEST 2009

1. •Fixed possible crash on closing ssh connections.
   

2. •Fixed duplication of currently connected hosts ( they were connected in the duplicate as well ;-).
   

3. •Fixed bug that was showing not the correct hostlist when disabling Bonjour.
   

Known Problems

Some servers are not capable of handling the amount of requests JollysFastVNC sends them. I'm thinking about a solution which does not slow down high performance servers like ScreenRecycler.

If the application crashes send me a bug report please (application Info panel contains my e-mail).

BACKGROUND

When I started ScreenRecycler I thought that there are enough VNC clients out there to support it. When the program started to get useful I realized that the VNC clients available on the Mac were pretty slow and people were complaining about the speed of ScreenRecycler. I was using VNCThing at the time which proved to be acceptable on PPC Macs but does not run on Intel Macs.

Without a proper viewer people can't access ScreenRecycler in a way I imagined. So I started programming JollysFastVNC to enable people using ScreenRecycler. As I got a few mails about the VNC capabilities of JollysFastVNC I decided to enhance the program to be a fully functional VNC client. It's somewhat usable and fast as you can see here.

 

FEEDBACK

Feedback is very welcome if you have a truely new idea or found a bug. Read the Readme before submitting though. You can mail be by clicking on the mail link inside the ‘About box’ in JollysFastVNC.