I ssh into my endian machine and have it setup to certain external IP addresses, one being a remote server. This way if I am in a real obscure situation and I need to get in when not at a usual spot I can double tunnel. I use "No Machine" for apps on a linux machine and I tunnel RDP for my windows desktop. Haven't really had any problems going that route, I also use dyndns to fix the dynamic ip issue, most of your firewall distros auto update dyndns if you have an account and I believe most linksys automatically do it now too.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilbert Mendoza <[email protected]>wrote: > -XC will enable X11 Forwarding and add compression, and works okay for > one-off application usage. But since X11 is not optimized for low > speed connections, it can be painfully slow otherwise. > > I prefer NX for full desktop presentation. For anything else, > tunneling it through SSH is awesome since it doesn't add a lot of > overhead and removes much of the data leak prevention concerns > associated with other protocols. > > -- > Gilbert Mendoza > PGP: 0x075DBCA9 > Email: gmendoza at gmail.com > http://www.savvyadmin.com > https://launchpad.net/~gmendoza <https://launchpad.net/%7Egmendoza> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GilbertMendoza > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know what Paul's aim is but the -X flag for ssh is great for > running > > one program over the network, specially a lan. I've been in environments > > with x-term thin clients and have used the -X option to get programs from > a > > server that wasn't hosting my x-term session. That is a good example of > it's > > use. I'm not sure how well ssh x-windows thing works over the internet > and > > if the data is compressed. If the data is compressed, I bet the extra > bytes > > the encryption puts on takes away any advantages from compression. > > > > If you want a whole desktop, and you are doing it over the internet, > > something like freenx is what you need. I haven't played arround with RDP > on > > the windows side that much, but I bet freenx performs just as well as RDP > on > > limited bandwith connections. > > > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
