[TriLUG] LastFoot.com VNCSERVER

[T.A. Nguyen]

Let leave the security out for now. This would be inside the firewall.

The one good thing that was created or used at the lastfoot.com was the
ability to logon on to a KDE desktop with your own user id and password
every time you point your vncbrowser to it.  Much like you are just walk up
the to console and there it is: the logon screen, enter your user id and
password then you have your very own desktop.  Lastfoot.com successfully
delivered that via vncbrowser and inetd serving it just like any other
services.

Example: point your browser to vnc.lastfoot.com:83 for an 800x600 screen,
vnc.lastfoot.com:84 for 1024x768 ...  With inetd kickoff on demand, you
don't have to do a ssh over to the server to start vncserver first.

I manage to use the /usr/bin/kde to kickoff the desktop but I still have to
ssh to the server first to kick off the vncserver.

Lastfoot.com was announced here on this very list.  Unfortunately I did not
have time then to learn their techno.  Any ex employee of lastfoot.com
around????

Regards,
T.A. Nguyen
VP - IT Development
International IT Services, Ltd
Mobile: 919.201.5064
Fax: 919-380-0409
Email: ta at iits-usa.com
http://www.iits-usa.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
> Of Jon Carnes
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:38 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] LastFoot.com VNCSERVER
>
>
> Joseph, "lastfoot" was a divergent line of VNC.  It was designed to use a
> tiny foot print, and be as light weight as possible.  I don't think anyone
> has worked on the opensource version in a while.  I've heard some
> folks say
> nice things about it, but VNC has always met my needs.
>
> Jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sinner from the Prairy" <sinner at escomposlinux.org>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] LastFoot.com VNCSERVER
>
>
> > A Dijous 25 Octubre 2001 04:01 pm, vàreu escriure:
> > > Had anyone use or work with this technology before when it was public?
> I
> > > am interested in the way they set vncserver up via inetd and when the
> > > vncbrowser got to one of these server, it ask for user id &
> password as
> if
> > > you are login locally.  I got some instructions from the internet but
> does
> > > not seem to help me.  Sorry, I got thick skull...
> >
> > What do you mean 2before, when it was public"? I thought that
> it still was
> > public.
> >
> > I have used VNC successfully. I have used it to control NT
> boxes (located
> at
> > a cold, server room) fom my desktop at my office, with a nice
> coffe at my
> > hands.
> >
> > I have used it both from vnc-client on Windows9x and from a java-enabled
> > browser in Linux.
> >
> > Pros:
> > -it works,
> > -it is great.
> > -it is multi-platform on clients
> > -it is multi-platform on servers
> > -great on intranets
> >
> > Cons:
> > -it is not encripted communicaiton (maybe you can enncript it on a ssh
> tunnel
> > or something
> > -it needs an special port open on your firewall
> > -it is a little slow (or so it felt) through internet
> >
> >
> > I recommend it on firewalled intranets. It is very good.
> >
> >
> >
> > Salut,
> > Sinner
> > --
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