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

[David Mathog]

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
***@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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[John Hearns via Beowulf]

Post by David Mathog
VNC takes over the console on the remote machine. What if somebody else

is using that, or there isn't one (headless server)?

David, are you sure about that?
I did at lot of work in F1 on VNC to workstations... as I remember VNC
sessions are not on the 'root window' by default.

I did a lot of work in conjunction with NICE and their DCV product in order
to configure 'takeover' mode with VNC.
The use case here is that you are sitting at your desk, in front of the
screen and keyboard during the working day.
In X parlance this is the 'root window'. You want to go home to see your
loved ones at some stage. However you do not want to log out from your
workstation.
When you get home you fir up your laptop, connect into the corporate
network and start a VNC session - on the root window, so you just unlock
the screen and continue.

Not really as easy as it sounds, the NICE guys have got that packaged up.

Post by David Mathog

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
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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[Stu Midgley]

I run resilio sync to provide a my own cloud-like sync of all my
scripts/code to all my offices/machines. It is fast enough that I edit
with TextMate on my mac and by the time I switch to a terminal window, its
already synced etc.

[Brian Oborn]

Post by David Mathog

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)?

Modern Linux VNC servers have several modes where they can either take over
an existing X session or create a new virtual X session at any
resolution/bitdepth just for their use.

Brian Oborn

Post by David Mathog
Regards,
David Mathog
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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[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

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
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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