I used to use VNC viewer with ssh tunneling, I wonder if there is a way to do that with this extension...
Switched to NX, but didn't set up the web viewer yet, so this would be an easy way to work on the road if could do ssh tunnel.
VNC Viewer for Google Chrome
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#12What are the advantages of this over Chrome Remote Desktop from Google? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
This works with legacy vnc servers
Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome
#13What are the advantages of this over Chrome Remote Desktop from Google? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
It works seamlessly with your Google Account. I gave it a try and it works very well. I couldn't even tell if I was on my Ubuntu box or Chromebook.
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#14Not supported by ChromeOS apparently.
I hacked together an open source VNC viewer which can run on the ARM Chromebooks[0] earlier this year. Source code at [1]. It't far from perfect but it did what I needed it to do.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vnc-viewer/ekheahf...
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#15I would like to add this to Chrome just in case I may use it but Chrome already has a 400MB memory footprint on my laptop. So I'll stick to teamviewer...but nice to know this is available if need be.
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#16This kind of thing could be interesting. I've often bemoaned the use of HTML/Javascript as a "poor man's X server" and argued that a browser is not necessarily the best way to remote out a UI. VNC, on the other hand, is designed for pushing user interfaces out remotely, so integrating the two could be a very natural step.
What'll be interesting to see, is if we can get to a point where there's a very natural handoff mechanism between the browser and VNC. Will there be, for example, urls like:
vnc://myhost.com/some_remote_desktop
that will seamlessly start a VNC viewer? If so, that starts to become really cool.
Of course, I freely admit that I don't know well VNC works over public Internet / WAN links. That was always one of the arguments against using X, that the latency of WANs / the public Internet, screwed with it and made it fairly unusable. Not sure if VNC is better in this regard or not.
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#17Question: why would you use this instead of Back to My Mac on OSX? Isn't that all the same?
Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome
#18This kind of thing could be interesting. I've often bemoaned the use of HTML/Javascript as a "poor man's X server" and argued that a browser is not necessarily the best way to remote out a UI. VNC, on the other hand, is designed for pushing user interfaces out remotely, so integrating the two could be a very natural step. What'll be interesting to see, is if we can get to a point where there's a very natural handoff…
Well, you can sort of already have that with a bit of JS and NoVNC.
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#19Question: why would you use this instead of Back to My Mac on OSX? Isn't that all the same?
VNC servers can run on Linux, Windows, OS X. This is more similar to running VNC client as a native binary for your OS, except this lets you do it in Chrome.
The biggest benefit I can tell is if you can run this on Chrome OS now. That, and pushing the technology forward.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Teamviewer all the time and find it very useful. I need to spend a little time to look at how the connections are made though—I'm not confident that it's secure since you have to enter an ID and password that are (I'm assuming) authenticated by a different machine controlled by Teamviewer. I wonder if the connection is sent through their computers (to get around router issues) and therefore susceptible to captu…
TeamViewer works great - but I share the same concerns. It seems too good to be true, which makes me wonder what I'm sacrificing as a user.
Nothing really. It's just a typical freemium model. I used it to fix my parents' computers remotely every now and then. Then a few months later I bought TeamViewer Premium for a network I manage. I didn't even try looking into alternatives because TeamViewer worked so well and it was relatively cheap for what it did. Of course there are tons of free alternatives but it is more expensive (in manhours) to go through the process of vetting, getting, and setting them.