[dba-Tech] Wippien - was Re: Remote take over programs

[Jim Lawrence]

I like the way Microsoft is finally going. No longer are they a company fighting off all challengers but a company who wants to play on the team.

http://bit.ly/1OIHvpL

I couldn't be happier but it also means that no longer are there pure Window's end to end solutions for every situation. In fact the latest and greatest advances have been in Microsoft's adoption of other technologies like hyper-v, nodejs, containers, ubuntu, redhat, juju, hadoop, zfs and on and on...in otherwards MS has fully embraced the world of the open-source and Linux in particular.

I may seem to be beating around the bush but I am trying to say is you are wasting to much time to craft some kind of solution built in pure MS when a hybrid most likely will be a better solution. I just ran up a $35.00 Raspberry PI 2, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. I can control my entire network which is a mix of Windows and Linux servers and stations. (You will need to have a video cable, mouse and keyboard to set it all up but then put the PI in a small box, connected via a network cable and powered by a handy USB plug...Oh yes, I am using X2Go...the package is still in beta mode but at least it is under active development.)

Jim
    
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2016 8:38:13 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Wippien - was Re:  Remote take over programs

I use it on Windows 10 on my desktop.  I use it on Windows 11 
(entertainment server, which is really 2008) on my VMs.

It does not look to be under development any more.  The problem is 
common with every "public domain" or free program ever written. Sooner 
or later the author loses interest.

In this case there still seems to be a community of servers to establish 
that initial connection.  Beyond that it works.

I use it solely to get RD over a vpn.  Wippien is the VPN, nothing more 
(for me).

Nowadays most of the vpn users are kids trying to establish game groups, 
chat on the side etc.  I just need a vpn for RD.

It was easy enough to get set up, and can have a "network" of many 
machines, though you do have to register a distinct user (name) for each 
and every machine to be on the network.  Having done that you can see 
every user (machine), and given the IP (5.x.x.x) and permission, can RD 
in over the VPN.

The biggest issue I have for it is that it doesn't seem to start as a 
service as the machine starts up, i.e. it starts up when logged in.  
Which is just fine for connecting desktops with real live users.  In my 
case I am trying to connect VMs.  Which means I have to use RD to log in 
to get wippien running to use RD.  Kind of a catch 22.

Except that I can get at my VM server using RD to a direct IP out on the 
web, then from the desktop there I can RD into the VMs, get wippien 
running and then back out of the RD on the machine from the server and 
go in direct over RD through wippien.  Which is simply much faster than 
the double RD (desktop to server to vm).

So it does work for my purposes, but is clumsy getting all set up.

The VMs run 24/7/365 so once up Wippien stays up and works just fine.

On 1/3/2016 5:21 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Gustav:
>
> Have you used the product? If so does it work on Windows 7,8 and 10?
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 2:40:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Remote take over programs
>
> Hi John
>
> This Wippien seems not be developed further - which is OK if it works, of course.
>
> Are you using it to encrypt the connection are does it serve other purposes for your setup?
>
> /gustav
>

-- 
John W. Colby

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