On 01/17/2016 10:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:03 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >> >> I would prefer a method that is independent of OS used. And provides server >> side limitations with regards to filesharing and clipboard access. >> > > x2go is just X11, so it should be OS-independent as long as you have a > client/server for it. It just logs in as the appropriate user on the > remote host, so access beyond that is whatever you'd get if you just > logged in on a console. > > Now, I can't vouch for how many OSes anybody has bothered to implement it on. >
Thanks for that tip on x2go - I'd struggled with freenx and eventually gave up and freenx isn't even in the tree anymore. I looked up x2go and rebuilt openssh on my home server as it suggested to try it out. Other than restarting sshd, I didn't have to do any configuration and it just *worked*. I've, like, never ever had that happen before. Even when I set up my tigervnc with xinetd it was days of experimenting before I got it to work. tigervnc also was hanging up X upgrades, so now I can successfully ditch tigervnc. x2go is so much faster it's unbelievable. I have a gigabit LAN here at home and VNC was lagging pretty badly (to the point where I decided against even trying to use it remotely.) Some things to note: there's no android client, but there is one for Windows/linux/MacOS. I haven't tried it on my Windows laptop yet, but one of these days I'll dig it out and try it. Makes me wonder if it would be possible to spin up a VM on demand with x2go on and preconfigured if OP requires users not to be on the same host. Dan
