[FreeNX-kNX] Modern nxtunnel ?

[Al Johnson]

Sounds reasonable to me. It would probably cover a fair chunk of my nx usage. 
I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to implement, based on what I did manually 
while debugging a while back, but memory is hazy. I've not looked at nxtunnel 
yet though. I don't know of a better forum, so go for it. 

On Thursday 17 April 2008 17:48:08 Bill Alexander wrote:
> I was about to say the same thing.  :)  Of course, the ominous silence
> also might be because I'm missing something painfully obvious and
> nobody's speaking up.  I have a thick skin today, so please just open
> up and embarrass me if that's it.
>
> My specific interest is the same as the apochryphal 2004 "slashdot
> post" ( http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/621 ) that asked for a
> feature akin to ssh -NX.  I don't need printing, drive shares,
> persistent sessions, or any of the rest - just the compressed stream
> and roundtrip elimination.  Seems to me that the !M product, and thus
> FreeNX, is really trying to be a broad-spectrum remote access
> solution.  While that's fine and I actually think quite desirable, I
> also think there should be a reliable method for specific access to
> the single key technology component of fast X11.
>
> Any takers?  Am I just in the wrong forum?
>
> - Bill
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Al Johnson <alastair at solutiontrax.com> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 April 2008 16:37:24 Bill Alexander wrote:
> >  > Is anyone maintaining a modern version of nxtunnel for people who
> >  > don't want the full feature spread of FreeNX?
> >  >
> >  > The only versions I see posted anywhere are a bit dated - they don't
> >  > work with the modern nxcomp/nxproxy packages included with recent OSen
> >  > (e.g. Fedora 8 or Ubuntu Hardy, which both have the 3.1 !m code
> >  > versions as defaults).
> >  >
> >  > I started to work on a couple switches, but it's becoming a port, so I
> >  > thought I'd ask before continuing.
> >  >
> >  > Many thanks,
> >  >
> >  > - Bill
> >
> >  From the silence I take it nobody else on the list is doing anything
> > with nxtunnel.  I wasn't even aware it existed!