Questions About RealVNC Personal Edition...

[Dale Eshelman]

The short answer is NO
On Dec 15, 2009, at 08:23 AM, Robin Hill wrote:

> On Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 05:01:44PM -0600, Peter Bunn wrote:
> 
>> I'm wondering if the RealVNC Personal Edition would be a better solution 
>> for me, and I have a few questions...
>> 
>> Is it as secure as the VNC over SSH tunnel method in all respects?
>> 
> That depends really on what encryption they're using - this doesn't seem
> to be documented anywhere though.  I doubt it'll have quite the same
> level of rigorous testing as openssh has been through though (unless
> they're using openssl under the hood anyway).  That's unlikely to make
> any difference for this sort of usage though.
> 
>> Can the VNC service be run on a non-standard port (if desired) using the 
>> 'native' (XP SP3) Windows Firewall?
>> 
>> Would it be possible to run Personal Edition 'side by side' with the free 
>> version (on the same target machine) to provide a backup method?
>> 
> You'd be best addressing these to the RealVNC support/sales emails.  I
> don't see why you shouldn't be able to run it on a non-standard port
> though.  Running it side-by-side is likely to be problematic though.
> 
>> I'm still on a dialup connection (with no hope of getting broadband 
>> anytime soon) and the VNC/SSH combination I'd been using, while slow, was 
>> 'survivable'... and a good bit faster than the web access service I had 
>> as backup.
>> 
>> With the added encryption overhead, will the Personal Edition of RealVNC 
>> likely be noticeably slower than the free version?
>> 
> Shouldn't be - you're trading the ssh encryption overhead for the
> RealVNC encryption overhead.
> 
> The alternative is to stick with ssh - you should be able to run openssh
> server with cygwin, or freeSSHd (www.freesshd.com) is a more
> user-friendly server.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Robin
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Dale Eshelman
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