Citation, well when I looked at various examples and in fact downloaded the Real VNC client and installed it the software itself will not let you use it without creating a RealVNC account which then, having looked at help on that says that it stores details of the devices that you are using VNC to access.
As to The Raspberry Pi website suggesting TigerVNC, in all honesty I had not found the page you linked to is one reason and secondly I was once years ago on the receiving end of malicious operators who succeeded in trashing a pc, sure there was not the sort of firewall protection software available that there is now, but the experience even though I had backed up most stuff is not forgotten. Therefore downloading software from sites is always a concern. Add to that, that the software is for accessing pcs or other hardware across my home network, it always increases the risks.
I looked at the TigerVNC software, sure it passed normal AV and Malware checks that I have but it seemed to want to install both a server and a client unless I was not following the info that was flashed up as I started to install. I didn't want to install any server on my laptop that is/was to be the client device to work on the pi4 across the network.
The thing that does puzzle me is that creating a new user on the Pi in addition to the default Pi user and using that to login to the Pi4 with mstsc.exe gives the normal desktop AND the browser does display data as it should. So quite why the user 'pi' gets a garbled browser display and the another doesn't is a complete mystery.
As to The Raspberry Pi website suggesting TigerVNC, in all honesty I had not found the page you linked to is one reason and secondly I was once years ago on the receiving end of malicious operators who succeeded in trashing a pc, sure there was not the sort of firewall protection software available that there is now, but the experience even though I had backed up most stuff is not forgotten. Therefore downloading software from sites is always a concern. Add to that, that the software is for accessing pcs or other hardware across my home network, it always increases the risks.
I looked at the TigerVNC software, sure it passed normal AV and Malware checks that I have but it seemed to want to install both a server and a client unless I was not following the info that was flashed up as I started to install. I didn't want to install any server on my laptop that is/was to be the client device to work on the pi4 across the network.
The thing that does puzzle me is that creating a new user on the Pi in addition to the default Pi user and using that to login to the Pi4 with mstsc.exe gives the normal desktop AND the browser does display data as it should. So quite why the user 'pi' gets a garbled browser display and the another doesn't is a complete mystery.
Statistics: Posted by Stratcat — Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:11 pm