David,

Well...not quite sure what exactly I am going to do with 
the box at all. I just miss my old Amiga, am sick to 
death of Windows (both the Win98 at home and the 4 NT's 
at work) and wanted something very much cooler to play 
with.

Mostly I want to learn stuff on it, networking stuff 
mostly: samba, ssh, vnc, mgetty, et al.

Much of the time I expect to just use plain old SSH (not 
that I need security on a direct wire at home...but why 
not form a good habit?).

Still...sometimes I'll want to use VNC, even if only just 
for practice. And at those times I won't like having to 
learn a second desktop (different from KDE -- which I've 
kinda gotten used to) only for VNC.  I was a tad 
disappointed when VNC came up plain-Jane X. I had 
expected it to fire up the KDE as/per my account and show 
me that.

Know that I had set up VNC on the 4 NT's at work and it 
was cool. Just before, I had set up a NetBSD box for a 
samba and ssh server. End goal is that, at some point, I 
want fix those boxes up (I'm not entirely sure how, yet) 
in such a way that mgetty on the NetBSD will answer a 
dail-in from Win98 on the outside (my boss's house?) and 
present an SSH-tunneled VNC of any one of the four NT's 
to the caller's Win98.

So, it would be Win98 at one end, WinNT at the other, and 
an invisible NetBSD in the middle. Don't want those four 
NT's directly hooked to the internet, not even via a 
firewall (corporate policy).

The purpose would be to control the NT's both remotely, 
and securely. It's on my list of mid-term goals. My boss 
would love it. But it absolutely must stay secure, hence 
the SSH biz. 

Those NT's are running fatigue-durability tests on 
umpteen-thousand-dollar prototypes. Can't have any 
competitors dailing in, clicking a mouse and crashing 
us. Boss wouldn't like that...no.

Curiosity satisfied?

Thanks,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI USA