From 37e7a81220a7ecb9b94aaa78f1dfd6e58f8f0a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jocelyn Le Sage Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:12:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Added note about SSVNC and the Windows version. --- README.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bcfda8d..a9f2dc4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla Found * [User/Group IDs](#usergroup-ids) * [Accessing the GUI](#accessing-the-gui) * [Security](#security) + * [SSVNC](#ssvnc) * [Certificates](#certificates) * [VNC Password](#vnc-password) * [Reverse Proxy](#reverse-proxy) @@ -273,6 +274,25 @@ few VNC clients support this method. [SSVNC] is one of them. [SSVNC]: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html +### SSVNC + +[SSVNC] is a VNC viewer that adds encryption security to VNC connections. + +While the Linux version of [SSVNC] works well, the Windows version has some +issues. At the time of writing, the latest version `1.0.30` is not functional, +as a connection fails with the following error: +``` +ReadExact: Socket error while reading +``` +However, for your convienence, an unoffical and working version is provided +here: + +https://github.com/jlesage/docker-baseimage-gui/raw/master/tools/ssvnc_windows_only-1.0.30-r1.zip + +The only difference with the offical package is that the bundled version of +`stunnel` has been upgraded to version `5.49`, which fixes the connection +problems. + ### Certificates Here are the certificate files needed by the container. By default, when they