mixu/nwm — Issue #17: Remote access
Author: baaaaaaaaaaaaaam
Created: 2012-02-18 20:26:48+00:00
State: open

Following up on my remote access question in Issue 16 here (I can't reopen the issue): https://github.com/mixu/nwm/issues/16

I'm not sure I follow how you're framing remote access.

I'm trying to use nwm remotely through a browser -- the browser on a client machine would connect to the nwm server and then could open, say, OpenOffice Word Processor or something like that, and I could use the application through my browser while it's running on the remote machine.

I've been playing around with trying to get remote access established in a browser via node-canvas and socket.io. Is this possible / what you were getting at? I haven't been able to get a working proof of concept as of yet.

As you mention, I'm trying to avoid VNC, but basically accomplish the same/similar outcomes. The rationale for the project is to test latency: my suspicion is, if this setup can work, the latency of this setup would be less than VNC.