[FreeNX-kNX] Reverse Connection with FreeNX

[Terje Andersen]

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    Emne: [FreeNX-kNX] Reverse Connection with FreeNX
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> Hi everybody!
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> I'm looking for your help, I need to make a reverse connection with   
> FreeNX, like the reverse connection of VNC that the server connects   
> to the client and the connection is succeful, no router or firewall   
> configurations, can it be made? how?
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   I won't say that it's impossible (nothing is impossible in the Open  
Source world :p), but I can't see any easy way of accomplishing this.

   VNC uses (AFAIK) a rather simple authentication mechanism, but the  
NX technology uses SSH (with pub/priv key) + user&password.  
"Reversing" this mechanism doesn't look (to me) to be a simple task.  
You would also need to make a custom client (look at the FreeNX Client  
QtNX for GPL'ed code) that would accept the connection from the server.

   Maybe I'm looking all wrong at this; a simple program (on the  
server) could send a special command to a custom client with info  
about the server/IP that it (the custom client) should initiate a  
connection to. That might be a more probable workaround to it...

   My 2 cents :-)

   Regards,

   Terje
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