Well, this is a follow up to my earlier posting. I have downloaded and looked at Tight VNC, and it appears that VNC may not have the capability I described below. In particular, what I need for my Unix box to act as a "go between" providing remote Windows users secured access to the local Window server. The local Windows server is behind the Firewall and does not allow remote login. My Unix box is in the DMZ and will allow logins provided the security allows you in.
The way we've got it set up is using Tarantella on the Unix box. It works. The remote windows user is able to display his local Windows login session through Java-enabled web browser. The issue is not functionality, but price (Tarantella is expensive). The documentation for VNC describes a senario by which a remote Windows user may log in to a local windows or Unix server and recieve display of his login session. But the documentation does not describe where VNC can be used to redirect display from an alternative server, through the VNC box, to the remote user. Anyone know if this is possible with VNC. Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -----Original Message----- From: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:59 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Is there an Alternative for Tarantella? Oh I'm sorry I misunderstood your original reply. Yes, if VNC is free I'll check it out. To explain more of what I need is as follows: 1. user logs on to our dial up network 2. user opens up web browser, points web browser to my Tarantella server 3. user logs in to Tarantella through web browser 4. Tarantella presents user with a button that connects and logs him in to our Windows server 5. user's Windows desktop appears. User may open his Windows applications and in particular "Outlook" so he can access his email 6. User doesn't need to know anything about how Unix works Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-6223 -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is there an Alternative for Tarantella? Ummmmm, which suggestion? VNC & TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/ are free and run on linux and windows and does what your VERY limited description of your requirement needs. > I need a solution for Linux, and it needs to be cheap. So your > suggestion below won't work. > > Michael Martinez > System Administrator (Contractor) > Information Systems and Technology Management > CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture > (202) 720-6223 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Smith > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is there an Alternative for Tarantella? > > >> "Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote .. >>> Is there a tarantella-like software for Linux, used to allow dial up >>> users a browsable interface to our Windows servers, that is free or >>> cheap? >> >> Have you compared the price of Caldera/SCO's Tarentella for Linux to >> the price it would cost you for MS's own solution? T runs on Linux >> but also lends support for other os's in connectivity. >> >> Secondly, VNC runs on Linux, HP-UX and other unix, as well as Windows >> and gives you a pc-anywhere like connection to the above os's. >> Dial out, then run VNC to receive the remote desktop on your local PC. >> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ >> >> Peter > > Re: VNC - get "TightVNC" since the VNC people don't give a damn about > how slow it runs or how much bandwidth it uses. > They code to allow for people to do something about that but > specifically say that is not their problem to implement themselves. VNC > is PAINFULLY slow even on my local 100Mbit network!!! > TightVNC is quite a bit faster > (but still a little slow considering I'm using 100Mbit links between my > computers upstairs and downstairs) -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
