NX using SSH tunnel?

[gladerac]

Hi

I recently installed the Enterprise Terminal server on a test machine (Dell R710/RHELv5) and the client on a PC. My group mainly uses a legacy X11 application and my manager was suitably impressed with the speed and is ready to sign the order. To make my life easy, I used SSH.

For our production environment, the servers are located on a private IP address and one server with a public IP can reach the private addresses (Wikipedia calls it an SSH jump host)

I read the section that recommended NX protocol over SSH. My question is that if I install the NX server on the private address servers, do I setup an SSH tunnel through the public facing server and use NX protocol?

Thanks

gary

[reza]

Yes, it’s possible to tunnel NX protocol over a SSH, as explained in https://www.nomachine.com/AR10K00728.

However there are no benefits to do that, compared to use SSH directly.

[gladerac]

Hi

Is there a better way to reach the internal servers thru the public server then?

[reza]

You can configure your router to forward some TCP ports to your internal machines.
Each unique external TCP port should map to port 4000 of the separate internal machine.
In a similar way you can handle UDP ports to improve multimedia performance.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by reza.

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