On 16 Mar 2010, at 23:14, Adam Nielsen wrote: > ... I have a DRAC5 but can't use the console redirection because > I've never been able to get the browser stuff to work.
Yeah, I just resort to Internet Exploder. I've got IE8 working with a DRAC4 - it just takes a lot of fiddling with the (in)security settings in Windows' Internet Options. > I would've preferred to use VNC as it's readily available and easy > to install, so I'm just wondering why Dell chose a custom protocol > instead. Exceedingly good question! > With all the hassle and problems of installing the browser plugins, > it must do something fantastic that VNC can't! I believe that the original VNC project ceased (with the closure of AT&T Laboratories Cambridge) without encryption as a feature. I have always felt this a shame, as there seems to be some fragmentation of projects now. Some of the original developers formed RealVNC, but they sell their product and I don't believe the GPL version offers encryption. One might conjecture that this DRAC incompatibility may be related to this. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
