RE: [SLUG] Ultra VNC

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 08:04:05 EST


This is good. BUT, to you and I easy has a different meanning. I deal with people who sometimes
don't know there left from there right. I guess I am going to do some programing.

William

--- Ken Elliott <kelliott11@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> >> This is not going to work.
> >> I need a way to have encryption.
> >> Is there one that works with both linux and windows?
>
> I assume your need for encryption means you are trying to access a computer
> not on your LAN. You might consider using a VPN to create a secure path,
> then run any VNC of your choice. The VPN will take care of the encryption
> side.
>
> Try Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
>
> Or OpenVPN - http://openvpn.net/
>
> Hamachi is easy, and passes right through firewalls with no configuration
> required. You can access your home PC from work, without the need to open
> ports on either firewall. Pretty cool stuff. The downside, is that both
> machines must use the Hamachi server to start the initial connection, so if
> it goes down, you can't connect.
>
> On the open source side, OpenVPN looks interesting. Still studying it.
>
> Ken Elliott
>
> =====================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of William Coulter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:32 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Ultra VNC
>
> This is not going to work. I need a way to have encryption. Is there one
> that works with both linux and windows?
>
> William
>
> --- Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com> wrote:
>
> > William Coulter said:
> > > So, your saying that UltraVNC only works on windows, so you use
> > > TightVNC on linux. Can I use TightVNC to connect to a XP box using
> > > UltraVNC?
> >
> > Sure, but you won't be able to use any UVNC features since TightVNC
> > doesn't support them. You may need to disable any encryption UVNC
> > expects or enable some kind of compatibility mode so it doesn't reject
> > the TVNC connection, though.
> >
> >
> >
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