Friday, January 07, 2011

Chromoting

I tried the Chromoting (remoting) features in Chrome OS last night. See Chromoting announcement from June 2010 (PCWorld, PCMag, Engadget, Fortune). This VNC capability is not yet working in ChromeOS but once it does, then using remote desktops via VNC for Windows, Mac and Linux machine will all be supported. For now, ThinVNC (HTML5 and AJAX based) is what will work for Windows. I installed and looked at Web VNC which is on the Chrome Web Store and can report that this is not a viable solution for me since it requires that you connect and proxy through a cloud service sponsor, CloudSigma, servers. I see several security issues with using the CloudSigma VNC proxy approach.