[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems

[Tim Cutts]

That’s only the case for Windows servers, isn’t it?  UNIX machines can run arbitrary numbers of VNC servers from user land, if I remember correctly, although that’s not a VNC console of course.

For Windows servers I’d use RDP anyway.

I have to admit, all of these solutions are ropey to some extent.  We’ve now deployed Citrix NetScaler for remote access, and I have to admit it works pretty well.  I can now access Linux desktops, Windows desktops, Headless windows servers through RDP, SSH sessions, internal web services, etc etc, from any device I own.  Even some of our hard-core UNIX-heads have grudgingly admitted they quite like it.

Of course, it ain’t cheap.

Tim

> On 7 Jun 2018, at 22:53, David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:03:59 -0300 Hernan Olivera wrote
>> I've solved this using RDP instead VNC, with very improved velocity. You
>> have to deal with installing and configuring it in the server, but it works
>> fine.
> 
> VNC takes over the console on the remote machine.  What if somebody else is using that, or there isn't one (headless server)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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