December 2005
Beginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
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Hack #17. Secure VNC Connections with FreeNX
FreeNX isn't just for the X Window System—it can also provide secure VNC connections.
If "Secure, Lightweight X Connections with FreeNX" [Hack #16] got you excited about the performance and possibilities of the FreeNX server for displaying X Window System desktops over slow connections, just wait— there's more! FreeNX also supports translating the protocols used by VNC into X Window System protocols that it can then exchange with a standard NX client. If you install an NX client (such as NoMachine's excellent nxclient) on your desktop system, you can use a single application to both communicate with remote X Window sessions on your NX server and also proxy through to any VNC server that you can access from the NX server. The VNC server does not have to be running on the same system as the NX server—the NX server just needs to be able to contact it over the network.
Communications between the VNC server and the NX server are not encrypted, but communications between your NX client and the NX server are. This can be especially useful if you are working remotely and want to access a VNC server inside your company's network, but you need any communication taking place over the public Internet to be secure. Your corporate firewall already supports SSH, so you don't even need to open any other ports to support VNC.
Creating an NX Client Configuration for VNC
The previous hack explained how to obtain and install NoMachine's excellent NX client. ...
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