Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (138 mails)

[Andreas Schneider <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
>> I thought George Wright took this over and created Qt-nx which is part
>> of the freenx svn. See
>> http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/freenx/nxclientlib/qtnx/?rev=0&sc=0 and
>> http://blog.gwright.org.uk/articles/2006/08/23/qtnx-ready-for-public-consumption
>>
> 
> Well, this one looks interesting. I will evaluate it later.. (maybe in
> weekend)
> 
> I still don't understand a concept of Windows NX Server from his blog.
> NX Server cannot run on Windows, becuase NX is tied to X-Window-System
> and SSH, neither of which are Windows technologies. While the SSH and
> NX clients run on Windows, not so with NX server.
> 

The idea is to run a NX Server on Linux in the local network and use the
NX protocol.

     PC 1                         PC 2                        PC 3
+-----------+                +-----------+                 +---------+
| NX client |<-- internet -->| NX server |<-- local net -->| Windows |
+-----------+                +-----------+                 +---------+

The communication between NX server and Windows is RDP, and the
communication between the NX client and the NX server is NX protocol. So
you get all advantages of NX.


	-- andreas

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