[CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

Jeremy Gray jrgray at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 18:59:57 UTC 2007


Kai,

I looked on that page and I see that it integrates with SSH and can use
> SSL natively. Does NX have any advantages beyond that over VNC?


I'd say nx wins on security, speed, and admin hassle-factor, at least based
on my limited experience and for my needs (small research lab in a
university). for mac users (including me), there was not an obvious vnc
client that had ssh built in. I figured out how to do vnc over a ssh tunnel
from a mac. it was secure enough but a bit clunky, and harder for me to
enforce that users connect securely. so having ssh / ssl integrated in nx
was a win. there are some windows vnc clients with ssh (these may or may not
be free, I forget). beyond security, I found NX to be slightly faster than
tight-vnc (and much much faster than regular vnc). also, because I have
users connecting from mac, PC, and linux, I found NX easier to admin as a
solution because the nxclients are all very similar. vnc clients seemed to
vary a lot across platforms whereas for nx its basically all the same.

--Jeremy
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