Op 18-07-2024 om 23:20 schreef Nicolas George:
Hi.
I want to display a desktop and applications running on a Debian box on
the screen and keyboard of a ChromeBook. Over LAN+WLAN mostly, but if it
can also work more remotely in degraded mode it would be nice.
I see various options to try: VNC with a native Android client, VNC with
a client running in the Linux sandbox, x2go in the sandbox, Xpra in the
sandbox, etc.
Would perchance somebody here have already investigated a similar need
and be able to tell which solutions are the most promising in terms of
reliability and user experience.
If not, I will post my findings eventually.
I use VNC and a SSH-tunnel to do remote-desktop between Debian and
Debian. I use a server (my server) for the connection, but peer-to-peer
is also possible. And a VPN instead of a SSH-tunnel.
Some ASCII art:
client <--ssh--> myserver <--ssh--> me
On the client side, I use "tigervnc-scraping-server" and a SSH tunnel to
my server. A 3 line script on the client initiates the connection
On myserver the SSH tunnel from the client logs in without a password or
key, but I use "nologin" as shell. You could also use a key.
I use Remmina to connect to myserver, I guess this is not available for
a Chromebook, but there will be another VNC client what can connect to
"localhost:5900" using a SSH-tunnel.
Copy/paste does not work in VNC. (For that reason I also have another
connection method: SSH using the same server).
I have it a long time working, and it works fine.
With regards,
Paul
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Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen
https://vandervlis.nl
