About 30 years ago, universities provided NCD X terminals for students to login to Unix system for programming. Is there an app that turns ipp to x terminal to connect home workstation from outside? I need not only text terminal but also graphics terminal.
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App to turn iPad Pro to NCD X terminal?
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There's a bunch of apps out there if you can make do with a text based ssh client and/or with a VNC-style remote control app. I have no knowledge of current X Server implementations for iOS, unfortunately - I guess that's not a very common use case anymore.
That is the problem. I searched and only found text based app to connect to Linux system. For Windows, there are GUI based apps.
A VNC-based solution, as I mentioned in my previous post, is a very viable alternative to running a full X server on your iPad. It also comes out of the box with the benefit that it won't eat all your available bandwidth when you're trying to connect to your workstation while on the run.
As usual when opening up entrances to your home (or work) network, make sure you secure your solution properly before opening up your firewall.
Thanks. How do I make sure that I secure my solution properly before opening up my firewall?
I would recommend you to read up on the topic and then configure a VPN connection between the client device (your iPad, for example) and the server computer (your workstation), or between the client and the entire home network (if your firewall supports such functionality).
That way an attacker must crack something that was designed for security (the VPN protocol) rather than something that was designed for convenience (the VNC protocol).