December 2005
Beginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
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Hack #18. Secure Windows Terminal Connections with FreeNX
FreeNX isn't just for the X Window System and VNC—it can also provide secure Windows Terminal Services connections.
If "Secure, Lightweight X Connections with FreeNX" [Hack #16] and "Secure VNC Connections with FreeNX" [Hack #17] got you excited about the performance and possibilities of the FreeNX server for displaying X Window System and VNC desktops over slow connections, get ready because FreeNX has even more tricks up its sleeve. FreeNX also supports translating the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) used by Windows Terminal Services into X Window System protocols that it can then exchange with a standard NX client. If you install an NX client system (such as NoMachine's excellent nxclient) on your desktop, you can use a single application to communicate with remote X Window sessions on your NX server, proxy through to any VNC server you can access from the NX server or proxy through to any Windows Terminal server you can access from the NX server. Like the VNC server, the Windows Terminal server does not have to be running on the same system as the NX server— which is just as well, because the NX server used by both FreeNX and NoMachine's NX runs only on Unix and Linux boxes!
Like VNC through FreeNX, communications between the Windows Terminal 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 ...
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