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

[JD]

FreeNX seems dead.
x2go is very similar - both NX and SSH - easier to setup and works well with
recent releases.

Of course, all of this assumes the app isn't video editing or high end graphics.
 For nominal office productivity stuff it works fine.

Had to stop using freenx after Ubuntu 12.04. Switched to x2go with 14.04 and it
works nicely. I miss the pre-shared ssh key from FreeNX, but normal end-user
ssh-keys work for x2go.

BTW - Loading linux software outside the package manager is to be avoided. This
ain't windows and I doubt you want the problems caused by forcing old
dependencies to be stuck in the package manager.

On 09/30/2014 01:43 PM, Jim Kinney 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.
> 
>      
> 
>     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?
> 
>