[LinuxUsers] ssh vpn nxclient

[Peter Manis]

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 <gmendoza at gmail.com>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.
>
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>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Chris Thomas <cwt137 at yahoo.com> 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
> >
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