[ale] Something faster than X-Windows but more secure than VNC server?
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Wed Oct 1 10:08:52 EDT 2014
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 15:02 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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 :-)
Negatives are that X2GO is not compatible with "standard" NX versions
such as FreeNX or NoMachine NX, which can be a significant problem
depending on deployment. No plugin for Remmina, which is still my
favorite multiprotocol client (and doesn't crash for me at all).
On the plus side, if the client limitations aren't a deal breaker as
they were for me, they do have Windows and MacOS clients, so it's not
limited to both ends being *nix. For FreeNX, you would need the
NoMachine NX client as Remmina is not available for Windows. Remmina
should run under Cygwin but I've never tried it.
This is this multiprotocol client, similar to Remmina, for Windows:
http://www.mremoteng.org/
Downside, doesn't seem to support NX and certainly doesn't support X2GO.
Downside to FreeNX server: May not work on all versions of Ubuntu due
to conflicts with Wayland and some deprecated multimedia libraries. Not
sure about X2GO there. Looks like X2GO may have similar conflicts.
Refer to their FAQ.
>
Regards,
Mike
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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