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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog

My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain: IBM

Hi

I don't mean to point out the obvious, but doesn't vnc fit the bill? Correct 
me if I'm incorrect but; 

1 - There are plenty of VNC clients running on windows.
2 - while you may want to disable some of the graphics goodies, yes this makes 
no difference.
3 - ok
4 - VNC supports encryption IMO
5 - VNC doesn't support file transfer.
6 - vnc handles auth on its own.

Just my two cents :)

~Ryan


On Thu October 30 2008 04:09:42 pm Alan Dayley wrote:
> I'm specifying the configuration for secure, remote desktop login on a
> Linux box.  Here are the basic requirements:
>
> 1 - User's computers are running Windows XP (or maybe 2000 but not
> Vista) so the remote desktop client needs to run on Windows XP.
> 2 - The Linux desktop will be KDE (not that this should matter too much).
> 3 - At first the remote connection will be over the LAN, not over the
> Internet (not that this should matter much either).
> 4 - The connection between the client and the desktop server must be
> encrypted. 5 - The user must not be allowed to copy files or other data
> from the desktop server to their computer.  The user can only login and use
> the server desktop.
> 6 - The user will login using credentials on the desktop server
> independent of any other authentication mechanism.
>
> I think FreeNX (http://freenx.berlios.de/) fits this bill.  But I
> wanted to ask the group about any other options I may not know about.
> I'm shooting for a FS/OSS solution but am not against paying for it if
> that is the best thing to do.  (Meaning FS/OSS solutions that have pay
> support are fine.)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Alan
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