Alternative to VNC for Nix/M$?

trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

We currently use WinVNC to connect between M$ boxes and with a Nix box. But I have reason to believe that across the net, this is not secure as some very bizarre things have begun to happen to session passwords and missing items.

Does anyone have any other connecting client/server approach for M$ and Nix boxes or even, (dare I say it), M$ to M$? thx. J

adaptr · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:39 pm Post subject:

Not only do you have reason to believe - VNC states specifically that the RFB protocol is not secure.
No encryption, no C/R on connect - just a plaintext password sent from client to server.
So you must have missed that ;-)

For MS to MS - that's built-in since XP.
As for security - that's anybody's guess of course...
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trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

Why did I know you'd be the very first person to post a reply adaptr

? You're not a Veteran for nothing are ya...!

adaptr · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:50 pm Post subject:

You can tunnel VNC over SSH yourself - don't need a special "version" for that.
You may have to use something like Cygwin on the MS side, though.
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>>> emerge (3 of 7) mcse/70-293 to /
Essential tools: gentoolkit eix profuse screen