[ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure than VNC server?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Anyone have a good location to get FreeNX for RHEL6?  It’s not in their repositories or the EPEL.

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?

Jeffrey C. Lightner
Sr. UNIX Administrator

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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?

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 :-)


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us<mailto: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<mailto: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.


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
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