[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?
> 
>  
> 
> 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?
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
>         
>          
>         
>         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
>         
>          
>         
>         DS Services of America, Inc.
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>         5660 New Northside Drive NW
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>         Suite 250
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>         Atlanta, GA  30328
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>         
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>         C:678-772-0018
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