I work in public schools in NSW, Australia. It is currently
possible to connect to Windows Terminal Servers through the Dept Of
Education & Training network (firewalled) vLan) via their staff
portal. This is achieved through an Activex plug-in in IE. After
this access has been set up by the vLan admins, the server appears
as if in Windows Remote Desktop, in a web page. The servers are all
in the 10.x.x.x range and have never been accessible outside the
schools network before.
For public schools admin staff this is naturally <a big thing>.
Principals have <never> been able to access their files outside of
school before.
Could this be possible for Mac servers? Imagine ARD as a web plug-
in. I am aware of Webmin, but this is not the same. This is a log-
in screen the same as ARD.
The point of my thread: Theoretically possible any time soon? Or
not? At the moment, this only works for Windows servers, from
clients running IE. (For me, via Parallels). This could be a very
important moment in the fight to keep Apple servers in public
education in this country . . .
Hi,
To my knowledge, the core technology behind windows terminal services
developed by Citrix is unrivaled in terms of the bandwidth
efficiency / quality ratio. GUI remote access alternatives such as
VNC and X11 are generally too slow for regular use over many WAN (or
consumer internet) connections, when terminal services often works
well enough under the same conditions.
I know of no generic VNC viewers available through a web browser
interface, but it looks like the RealVNC server sports a java viewer
that can be run through a browser: http://www.realvnc.com/
javavncviewer.html RealVNC would need to be installed on the
computers you wish to control.
HTH,
-Andre
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