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From: Adam Hobaugh [mailto:vnc-list@realvnc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:39 AM
To: Long, Phillip GOSS
Subject: Re: vnc server running in a citrix connection
Thank you for your response. The way that they have it set up is on
the remote desktop she gets with citrix, the first thing she must
do is start a vnc server on that desktop so they can use the veiwer
to see the remote desktop. If the remote desktop has a modified
version of the server on it. Would it be able to somehow see her
desktop on her local machine? I am not sure if it is possible for
the server to hop onto the citrix connection and see her laptops
desktop as well as the remote one.
//adam
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Adam: Assuming that the VNC server at your friend's workplace is
compiled from standard code, she need not worry that her employer
can
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Adam:
Not having used Citrix, I can't say for sure, but I'll venture a
guess that the Citrix RDP client works much like others, in that it
creates local windows and controls controlled by the remote server,
instead of serving up all remote screen data like VNC does. The
VNC server on the Citrix-connected remote desktop could very well
be modified to snoop on the Citrix RDP data stream, but since that
data could at best only show what your friend sees in the Citrix
RDP client (i.e., the remote desktop), it wouldn't buy them
anything. The Citrix RDP client is proprietary, and I think it
unlikely that her employer would be willing to pay for a modified
version that could snoop her desktop (or even that Citrix would be
willing to do so). Besides the probable high price of any such
modification, it's even more unlikely that Citrix would be willing
to keep upgrading the customized version along with the standard
one. I have been in that situation before; the vendor modified
their OS for us, but refused to keep it current, which meant that
the machine on which it ran soon became a dinosaur. We were
willing to accept that because of our special circumstances, but
very few software customers would be willing to pay that price.
HTH!
Thx, Phil Long
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