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VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by gnud »

neuroguy wrote: post #11

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.

Set up a ssh tunnel, using ssh on *nix, or putty on windows. Then point the VNC viewer to the local port of that tunnel.

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by AjithAntony »

backwardm wrote: post #6
patrickk wrote: post #3

An alternative is Teamviewer- http://www.teamviewer.com/ I've found it excellent. Free for non-commercial use.

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…

There is also a "LAN connect" option which will not depend on teamviewer servers to broker a connection. If your endpoints are directly addressable and don't have any firewall/NAT complications, the workflow is just like a VNC or RDP.

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by spankalee »

mindcrime wrote: post #30
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are we still messing around with ancient technology like VNC? Its terrible. It just samples screen output; it does not intelligently understand the underlying GUI so it can't really cache anything or accelerate anything. If we're going to replace HTML as a "poor man's interface" then we need to do better than VNC. Perhaps NX or RDP. Still, I'd argue that HTML as a poor man's interface is perfect. I could sit down…

If we're going to replace HTML as a "poor man's interface" then we need to do better than VNC. Perhaps NX or RDP. Well, I certainly won't argue against that. But at least with VNC it's being used for the purpose it was developed for. Personally I feel like trying to build complex application UIs with HMTL/CSS/Javascript is trying to shoehorn a square peg into a round hole. Browsers are great at, well, browsing hyperm…

But HTML isn't usually "remoting" an interface anymore, it _is_ the interface. This trend will only continue and solutions like VNC, NX will become unnecessary.

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by angryasian »

This really works very well. Its much faster and stable than thinvnc I was using on my chromebook. My only issue would be that I have to scroll a lot. I wish I could resize as the computer I'm connecting to has a much higher resolution (I think is causing the issue)

Re: VNC Viewer for Google Chrome

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Post by csense »

maethorechannen wrote: post #35
giis wrote: post #25

>This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled. Too bad, seems like it won't work with linux system.

What version of Chrome are you running? It needs version 25, which is fairly recent.

Fairly recent? More like bleeding-edge.

I saw the same text. I am running Mint 14 (based on Ubuntu 12.10) and my version is 24.0.1312.56.

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