Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> writes: > On 01/17/2016 10:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:03 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >>> >>> I would prefer a method that is independent of OS used. And provides server >>> side limitations with regards to filesharing and clipboard access. >>> >> >> x2go is just X11, so it should be OS-independent as long as you have a >> client/server for it. It just logs in as the appropriate user on the >> remote host, so access beyond that is whatever you'd get if you just >> logged in on a console. >> >> Now, I can't vouch for how many OSes anybody has bothered to implement it on. >> > > Thanks for that tip on x2go - I'd struggled with freenx and eventually > gave up and freenx isn't even in the tree anymore. > > I looked up x2go and rebuilt openssh on my home server as it suggested > to try it out. Other than restarting sshd, I didn't have to do any > configuration and it just *worked*. I've, like, never ever had that > happen before. Even when I set up my tigervnc with xinetd it was days of > experimenting before I got it to work. tigervnc also was hanging up X > upgrades, so now I can successfully ditch tigervnc. > > x2go is so much faster it's unbelievable. I have a gigabit LAN here at > home and VNC was lagging pretty badly (to the point where I decided > against even trying to use it remotely.) > > Some things to note: there's no android client, but there is one for > Windows/linux/MacOS. I haven't tried it on my Windows laptop yet, but > one of these days I'll dig it out and try it.
Thank you for letting us know, I'll keep x2go in mind. > Makes me wonder if it would be possible to spin up a VM on demand with > x2go on and preconfigured if OP requires users not to be on the same host. It probably is; I guess you'd need something to start the VM when a connection is attempted.
