John Aldrich wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 02:24 pm, Michelle Young wrote: > >> what product do you have that will provide our company with a secure vpn >> connection over the internet? we are using realvnc and winvnc free >> editions currently and our computers were accessed. so now we've closed >> access on all the computers. but we still need a way to work from >> outside our network. your thoughts? >> > You have two options: > 1) Purchase the enterprise version of VNC which has encryption built-in or > 2) Come up with some other sort of VPN and then "tunnel" VNC over the VPN > solution. > > Free VNC has the "security risk" that anyone can access it if they know the > name/ip address of the server and know/can guess the password. What you > really need, as I said previously, is either *pay* for the commercial VNC or > use some other sort of VPN app to create an encrypted tunnel. > > Personally, I use SSH to create an encrypted tunnel and then run VNC > over/through the SSH tunnel. Solves the problem for me. However, there are > other solutions, such as Hamachi (Windows/Linux), Microsoft VPN apps (Mostly > Windows) or 3rd-party VPN apps, such as Cisco, etc. > >
If you are looking for a free, full-flavored VPN solution, try OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net). It is very secure, and works great! It's what we use to VNC back into the office. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
