Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2009/4/24 Simon Capstick : > Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this > commercial product? > > http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ > > ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) > > I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a remot

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 at 11:41:38AM +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this > > > > I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a remote copy of the > > Firefox web browser running on a firewalled and sandboxed Linux server. > > Basicall

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Simon Capstick
URL below... Simon Capstick wrote: ... > xrdp sounds perfect - but it looks unmaintained and not quite finished? > However it pointed me towards Xvncserver, which although serves up whole > desktops, looks like it may do the job. > > Simon > XVNC server... http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/doc.

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Simon Capstick
Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this >> commercial product? >> >> http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ >> >> ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) >> >> I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a re

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Stephen Rowles
> Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this > commercial product? > > http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ > > ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) > > I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a remote copy of the > Firefox web

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Simon Capstick
Simon Capstick wrote: ... > I was hoping not to have to roll my own solution since I'm short on time > at the moment. But I guess a starting point is to look at combining vnc > with the xvfb virtual framebuffer X.org driver? > > Simon > Just found this, which may help me... http://www.kar

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Simon Capstick
Hi Richard, Richard Danter wrote: > Hi Simon, > > 2009/4/24 Simon Capstick : >> Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this >> commercial product? >> >> http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ >> >> ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) >>

Re: [Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Richard Danter
Hi Simon, 2009/4/24 Simon Capstick : > Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this > commercial product? > > http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ > > ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) > > I want to give (Windows) desktop users access

[Hampshire] Remote copy of Firefox?

2009-04-24 Thread Simon Capstick
Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this commercial product? http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a remote copy of the Firefox web browser runn