Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

[lee]

Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> writes:

> On 01/17/2016 10:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:03 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would prefer a method that is independent of OS used. And provides server side limitations with regards to filesharing and clipboard access.
>>>
>>
>> x2go is just X11, so it should be OS-independent as long as you have a
>> client/server for it.  It just logs in as the appropriate user on the
>> remote host, so access beyond that is whatever you'd get if you just
>> logged in on a console.
>>
>> Now, I can't vouch for how many OSes anybody has bothered to implement it on.
>>
>
> Thanks for that tip on x2go - I'd struggled with freenx and eventually
> gave up and freenx isn't even in the tree anymore.
>
> I looked up x2go and rebuilt openssh on my home server as it suggested
> to try it out. Other than restarting sshd, I didn't have to do any
> configuration and it just *worked*. I've, like, never ever had that
> happen before. Even when I set up my tigervnc with xinetd it was days of
> experimenting before I got it to work. tigervnc also was hanging up X
> upgrades, so now I can successfully ditch tigervnc.
>
> x2go is so much faster it's unbelievable. I have a gigabit LAN here at
> home and VNC was lagging pretty badly (to the point where I decided
> against even trying to use it remotely.)
>
> Some things to note: there's no android client, but there is one for
> Windows/linux/MacOS. I haven't tried it on my Windows laptop yet, but
> one of these days I'll dig it out and try it.

Thank you for letting us know, I'll keep x2go in mind.

> Makes me wonder if it would be possible to spin up a VM on demand with
> x2go on and preconfigured if OP requires users not to be on the same host.

It probably is; I guess you'd need something to start the VM when a
connection is attempted.