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.

5 comments:

Henson Duglas Sturgill said...

When you tried to sign-in to chromoting, were you given an invalid username/password prompt?

p\/ said...

No, ThinVNC worked perfectly for me from a Chrome HTML5 capable web browser on both my Mac and from my Chrome OS Notebook Cr-48. You might want to double check your ThinVNC settings on the remote machine. I did encounter any VNC issues with Chrome web browser. The HTML5 capability of ThinVNC is exactly what I needed. Now just need to find out how to do the same for VNC into my Mac machine (which has VNC built-in) but I am not sure it supports HTML5 clients yet.

p\/ said...

I meant to state that "I did not encounter any VNC issues with the Chrome web browser."

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