On Thu 05 Sep 2013 10:35:19 EST, John Hupp wrote: > On 9/4/2013 7:16 PM, Michael Pope wrote: >> Robert, >> >> >> On Thu 05 Sep 2013 01:21:54 EST, Robert Lefebvre wrote: >>> We've had pretty good success using the X2Go program to enable remote >>> access to both our server and our clients but I have just found >>> Guacamole (http://guac-dev.org/) which looks interesting. >>> >>> I like it because it doesn't require that a client be installed on the >>> remote user's machine. >>> >>> But, on the other hand, I don't like that it uses VNC which I think is >>> slower than the X protocol that X2Go uses (but I could be wrong). >>> >>> Having just started looking at Guacamole, it sounds like it can use >>> any remote server so it might be possible to get the best of both >>> worlds and have Guacamole access the x2go remote x server. >>> >>> Guacamole sounded like a good topic for discussion too. >>> >> Sounds reallly interesting. I've just switched from using VNC to using >> X2Go and the speed difference is huge. Using VNC was painfully slow >> even with full compression on, however using X2Go over the XDMCP >> protocol it's very fast, almost native speed over a 0.70mbit/sec upload >> link. >> >> I would be interested to see if Guacamole performs the same? >> >> from >> Mick > > I've been using Vino (VNC server) on the LTSP server with > https://meshcentral.com/. > > I'm using it because it's free for both business and personal use, it's > supported by Intel, client access is simple via a web browser, and it > also knows how to traverse the router's firewall without setting up > something like port forwarding. > > But it is currently only Alpha software (though it seems stable and > decently reliable), and I also find it to be slow. It's also not in my > distro's (Ubuntu) repositories. > > Can anyone say whether X2Go or Guacamole handle firewall traversal so > easily? >
X2Go works over SSH so as long as you have a port open for ssh (recommend something other than 22, eg: 2222) then you can use that one port for everything, also you could install fail2ban to stop brute force attacks on this port. from Mick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
