Xton Access Manager is now available for download. Simple to implement, without your typical enterprise cost and effort. Xton Access Manager is an agentless, cross-platform privileged access management solution with unlimited licensing model built from the ground up with an enterprise feature set. Let’s make the world better connected and more secure – together. What do you think about our assessment? Did we miss some of the key concepts? Please comment on this article. This article summarizes similarities and differences of RDP and VNC technologies essential to understaning and using distributed computing architecture.
We discuss this situation in our article “ Five Ways to Open Root Access for a Remote Contractor“ Summary It provides a simple and secure method of granting access to remote computers in a controlled way. In addition to that, XTAM can monitor user keystrokes and even record complete session to the remote computer as video for future learning, sharing or auditing purposes. It can optionally login the user to the remote computer without even asking the user for credentials based on the permissions in the XTAM server itself. XTAM can store credentials to the VNC servers.
It eliminates the need to install VNC clients on multiple desktop or mobile devices. Our Xton Access Manager (XTAM) Privileges Session Management Server requires only a WEB browser for the remote user to log in to the VNC server. We, at Xton Technologies, recently added support for VNC protocol. They might claim to have VNC as their primary communication channel, However they might not support complete VNC infrastructure with peer-to-peer connectivity and specific client and server side software. There are multiple technologies based on (and sometimes partially compatible with) this technology including some of the WEB based screen sharing applications. It’s also worth remembering that VNC is an open protocol. Popular WEB based screen sharing technologies like WebEx or GotoMeeting provide similar kinds of functionality using cloud based servers to maintain communication. It makes VNC a good choice for technical support when the remote user can see what the local user does and can take control when needed to help. Consequently, when several users (including the one operating the real physical monitor and keyboard) connect to the same server they see the same thing and they type on the same keyboard. VNC connects a remote user to the computer itself by sharing its screen, keyboard and mouse. It makes RDP a good choice for using the same remote server for multiple users at the same time. RDP can support multiple remote users logged in to the same server that completely unaware of each other. It works in the same way as if the user had logged in to the physical server directly. RDP logs in a remote user to the server computer by effectively creating a real desktop session on the server computer including a user profile.