Quite true that with MeshCentral you have to install their agent (though free, I suppose it is proprietary, didn't check) and routes all traffic across MC servers. But the other way to see part of that is that you don't have to run your own server, thus lightening the load on the machine you want to access.
And yes, I understand that x2go, nx and vnc would require firewall configuration, which for me is a big disadvantage (though I sure like what I hear about the speed that x2go and nx offer). But if I read correctly, Guacamole's design based on http has no problem with firewalls. That's attractive. Perhaps the next question for me then becomes how much load do Tomcat and Guacamole impose on the server, and can I run them on-demand? On 9/6/2013 1:06 AM, Christian Lensch wrote: > Hi John, > > none of the solutions (x2go, nx, vnc) will do without portforwarding/nat > on your firewall. Only meshcentral does that. But MC forces you to > install a proprietary agent and routes all traffic over its onwn servers. > > My 2 cents > > Christian > > Am 05.09.2013 22:18, schrieb John Hupp: >> On 9/5/2013 4:01 PM, Joseph Bishay wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> This may be a simple question, but is this different from using NX to >>> remotely access the LTSP server? I've been using that for several >>> years and it has performed very well. >>> >>> Thank you >>> Joseph >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Robert Lefebvre >>> <robert.r.lefeb...@gmail.com> 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. >>>> >>>> >> Joseph, as far as I know it is a similar solution with its own strengths >> and weaknesses. I think it defaults to running over SSH, which would >> mean that the firewall would have to be configured to allow for remote >> access to the SSH server. For my purposes that is a disadvantage. And >> it requires a client, rather than simply using a web browser on the >> client machine like Guacamole does. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
