What analog of windows remote desktop for FreeBSD supports ssl/tls1.0?

Perhaps not the answer you wanted, but ssh can do tunnels - you can tunnel any "remote control" protocol you want through a tunnel...
and PuTTY is a nice ssh client for Windows.
 
What analog of windows remote desktop for FreeBSD supports s

Mind you VNC isn't exactly equivalent to Windows' RDP. It has no concept of sessions for example. But if you just want to remote control the current session VNC will do nicely.

As for a client, I'm quite fond of net/tsclient.

Keep in mind that Windows' RDP is already encrypted and thus doesn't use or require SSL/TLS. But I don't recommend opening RDP to the internet. Easiest thing to do is to tunnel RDP (or VNC) over SSH.
 
What analog of windows remote desktop for FreeBSD supports s

doena said:
Can't you use net/xrdp and just connect with your favorite rdp-client?

I've used xrdp before. It doesn't work too good and is really finicky.
 
What analog of windows remote desktop for FreeBSD supports s

serverhamster said:
Is XDMCP dead or replaced by something else?
No, it's still alive and well. Works good too.

But, if you log off or disconnect, you really log off completely. Meaning you can't keep something running on the 'desktop', disconnect and pick it back up at a later time or from another location. With Windows' RDP (more specifically Terminal Services) you can.
 
What analog of windows remote desktop for FreeBSD supports s

NX is, especially across slower network links.

VNC can be as "fast" as RDP, if you use the right command-line options. For example, the default options make remote access to a 1024x768 screen over an E10 connection unpleasant to use. But:
$ vncviewer -encodings "tight" -depth 16 -compresslevel 9 -quality 5
is very useful over 1.5 Mbps ADSL links, even to computers with multiple monitors.

We use VNC as part of our helpdesk setup, connecting to remote screens all around the district. Some sites have < 2 Mbps wireless Internet connections, some 1.5 Mbps ADSL, some 10 Mbps E10, some 100 Mbps E100, some gigabit fibre. Using the options above, we have no issues with VNC "speed".

And we even tunnel it over SSH.

The downside to VNC is that it's a remote/shared console protocol, showing whatever is on the screen. It's not a remote login protocol like RDP/Terminal Services/XDMCP/NX.
 
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