From: "cpfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I was wondering if there is a way to access the ltsp from a remote
> location on the internet. The reason is that I want to deploy ltsp at
> our company but we have several people that travel with laptops. I was
> wondering if they would be able to get to the server and have the
> persons remote desktop by a x session or something. Any help would be
> great thanks
Well, on the Linux side of my laptop, I've got a script that runs
xvncviewer --compresslevel 9 -via gateway.whatever.com xdm:0
(check manpage) because that runs an encrypted tunnel through the
firewall, which is then delivered to the vnc-to-x converter machine,
which is then forwarded to whatever the LTSP server normally uses.
We replace the 0 with other numbers for other server categories.
I'm using VNC purely to get a low bandwidth low latency connection;
I prefer it to using the lbxproxy method.
On the Windows side, I bring up the VPN connection first and then do the
VNC directly, without bothering to use a second layer of encryption.
Of course, when I'm coming from a site with a high bandwidth and low
latency internet connection, such as visiting a corporation or a friend
who has cable/dsl service, the VNC layer is a hindrance and the obvious
is to bring up the VPN connection and simply start the local X server:
X -query ltsp
However, this delegates the whole desktop to the LTSP server and I like
to be able to mix local and remote applications fairly transparently.
Therefore, I normally prefer to keep the VPN down and tunnel X over SSH:
ssh -X gateway.whatever.com oowriter thereport.sxw
In fact, I end up doing that so often (with the laptop being too slow to
run open office well) that I've assigned that to a desktop icon now.
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