On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 03:40:42PM +0000, Scott C. Best wrote: > Ed: > Heya. Yup, it's something of a FAQ, but a good one. :) In > order to make a VNC connection either to or from a web-proxied LAN, > you need to first establish a "tunnel" of some sort through the > proxy. There are several utilities which allow this: SSH, Zebedee, > ProxyTunnel, EchoVNC. >
Ok, I'll poke around with it (and thanks for the references), but exactly *why* is this not integrated into vnc itself? Could the tunneling not be done inside the java viewer distributed with realvnc itself? Isn't that a hell of a lot simpler than having to track down a third party product which basically overcomes a shortcoming in vnc itself? As it is, I'm going to have track down executables both for the server side and the client side for the packet relay server (for windows,linux AND solaris), probably do some messy configuration on both sides, and work with interoperability issues in order to make the whole configuration work. Apart from lost time and effort, the configuration will have to be set up on every single machine which I want to use to connect out. And to top it all off, the lag time will probably be greater because I've got a couple of extra executables running with the related overhead for data forwarding! I would think this is a very common request. Without automatic proxy forwarding, the whole POINT of the java viewer is in jeapordy. What's the point of having browser access if you have to jump through all of these hoops to get something working, especially with something as trivial as making realvnc work with a proxy? And to top it off, I'm not sure it will work (with echovnc at least). Our proxy both filters incoming *and* outgoing traffic, which - with websense - is a practice that is becoming more common every day. All outgoing traffic *has* to go through the proxy. I'd like to hear from realvnc on this one.. Ed _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
