[ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure than VNC server?
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Wed Oct 1 10:12:36 EDT 2014
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 19:08 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Anyone have a good location to get FreeNX for RHEL6? It’s not in
> their repositories or the EPEL.
>
FreeNX is in CentOS 6 Extras repo and OpenNX along with a whole lot of
NX libs, nxauth, and nxagent are in EPEL. Should work just fine on
RHEL6.
> I did find it at something called atrpms.net but haven’t used that one
> before. Anyone know if it is trustworthy?
>
> Or best place to get the source if not at atrpms.net?
>
>
>
> Also where do I get the Windows 7 client?
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> Jeffrey C. Lightner
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> From: Jim Kinney [mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:02 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Cc: Lightner, Jeff
> Subject: Re: [ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure
> than VNC server?
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> If both ends are *nix, look at X2GO. It's an easier freenx than, um,
> freenx. good for single connections. Not tabbed like remmina. (doesn't
> crash as often as remmina either :-)
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> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us>
> wrote:
>
> Freenx. Uses a ssh tunnel by default and is at least one, if not two
> orders of magnitude faster than vnc. Think usable X desktop over
> dialup.
>
> On September 30, 2014 1:39:36 PM EDT, "Lightner, Jeff"
> <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:
>
>
> Basic question:
>
> Can anyone suggest something faster than X-Windows but more
> secure than VNC server?
>
>
>
> Details:
>
> We have applications that run as X applications. The vendor
> is used to running this in VNC Server but that isn’t very
> secure.
>
>
>
> We instead gave X access on MS-Windows desktops using Exceed
> or Cygwin/X and the applications are exported back to the
> users’ desktop. Since we’re doing this via ssh X tunneling
> it is encrypted.
>
>
>
> The users continually complain that this is too slow for their
> needs. We did initially give a single VPN session access to
> a remote consultant using VNC because it was clearly too slow
> going over the multiple hops it took to him in Pennsylvania.
>
>
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> Now I’m being asked to either turn on VNC Server for the users
> to access internally or propose an alternative solution.
>
>
>
> Is there such a thing as a host based service like VNC Server
> but that makes an encrypted connection to the users’ desktop
> so that only the display is being sent encrypted rather than
> having to draw on the desktop. Is there a way to make the VNC
> connection encrypted?
>
>
>
> Jeffrey C. Lightner
>
> Sr. UNIX Administrator
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>
>
> DS Services of America, Inc.
>
> 5660 New Northside Drive NW
>
> Suite 250
>
> Atlanta, GA 30328
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> P:678-486-3516
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> C:678-772-0018
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> F:678-460-3603
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> E:jlightner at dsservices.com
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