Chicken of the VNC

Oh man, someone started the same thing over at the 68KMLA forum. ...

Hi, I have a PB G4 running Chicken of the VNC to a Windows XP Home Edition box at home (running latest fully licensed VNC server as per date of this posting). 16Mbs broadband at home, immense b/w at office :) but performance is unusable. Mouse tracking is attrocious, screen paints take minutes... Any tips on how to address this?

All of a sudden I can't log in at the VNC Login screen. I input the password that I have had like forever, and it doesn't work. I type in the password, the authenticate screen comes up, I retype the password and the password box won't allow me to type anything. ...

I am able to use ARD to control a PC running the free version of RealVNC, which apparently uses a silent username of 'Admin' along with the password you set in the default install. Does anyone know the silent username for UltraVNC? ...

I can ping the server and telnet to it without a problem but when I try to connect to it using chicken VNC, I am not getting anything. ...

I was using a freeware app called Chicken of the VNC, to remotely log in and use a windows server. This app is also a windows emulator, to work from the windows server desktop, all within a window on my Mac. ...

They're of varying configurations in terms of memory, disks, etc, but all are the new xserve model. ...

I use regular Terminal or X11 to SSH to the Linux Server. ...

I'm trying out the VNC capabilities of Help! before I embarrass myself with a user. Good thing, too ... I can't make it work. ...

and am trying to connect my PB to my wife's PB in another state. I would like to transfer rather large files over the Net without having to deal with the SLOW speeds of iChat File Transfer. ...