libtdevnc/x11vnc/misc/enhanced_tightvnc_viewer

                  Enhanced TightVNC Viewer package

Copyright (c) Karl J. Runge <runge@karlrunge.com>
All rights reserved.

These packages provide 1) An enhanced TightVNC Viewer on Unix, 2) Binaries
for many Operating Systems (including Windows) for your convenience,
3) Wrapper scripts and etc. for gluing them all together.

One can straight-forwardly download all of the components and get them
to work together by oneself: this package is mostly for your convenience
to combine and wrap together the freely available software.

Bundled software co-shipped in this package is copyright and licensed
by others.  See these sites and related ones for more information:

        http://www.tightvnc.com
        http://www.realvnc.com
        http://www.stunnel.org
        http://www.openssl.org
        http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Note: Some of the Windows binaries included contain cryptographic software
that you may not be allowed to download, use, or redistribute.  Please
check your situation first before downloading any of these packages.
See the survey http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/index.htm for useful
information.  The Unix programs do not contain cryptographic software, but
rather will make use of cryptographic libraries that are installed on your
Unix system.  Depending on your circumstances you may still need to check.

All work by Karl J. Runge in this package is Copyright (c) Karl J. Runge
and is licensed under the GPL as described in the file COPYING in this
directory.

All the files and information in this package are provided "AS IS"
without any warranty of any kind.  Use them at your own risk.


=============================================================================

This package contains a convenient collection of enhanced TightVNC viewers
and stunnel binaries for different flavors of Unix and wrapper scripts,
etc to glue them together.  SSL and SSH encryption tunnelling is provided.

Also, a Windows SSL wrapper for the co-bundled TightVNC binary and other
utilities are provided.  (Launch ssl_tightvncviewer.exe in the
Windows subdirectory).


Features:
--------

The enhanced TightVNC viewer features are:

	- SSL support for connections using the co-bundled stunnel program.

	- Automatic SSH connections from the GUI (ssh must already be
	  installed on Unix; co-bundled plink is used on Windows)

	- rfbNewFBSize VNC support on Unix (screen resizing)

	- cursor alphablending with x11vnc at 32bpp (-alpha option, Unix only)

	- xgrabserver support for fullscreen mode, for old window
	  managers (-grab option, Unix only).

	- Automatic Service tunnelling via SSH for CUPS and SMB Printing,
	  ESD/ARTSD Audio, and SMB (Windows/Samba) filesystem mounting.

        - Port Knocking for "closed port" SSH/SSL connections.  In addition
          to a simple fixed port sequence and one-time-pad implementation,
          a hook is also provided to run any port knocking client before a
          connecting.


Your package should have included binaries for many OS's: Linux, Solaris,
FreeBSD, etc.  See the subdirectories of

	./bin

for the ones that were shipped in this package, e.g. ./bin/Linux.i686
Run "uname -sm" to see your OS+arch combination. (See the
./bin/tightvncviewer -h output for how to override platform autodection
via the UNAME env. var).


If you need to Build:
--------------------

If your OS/arch is not included, the script "build.unix" may be able to
successfully build on for you and deposit the binaries down in ./bin/...
using the included source code.

You must run the build.unix script from this directory (that this toplevel
README is in) and like this:

	./build.unix


The programs:
------------

The wrapper scripts: 

	./bin/ssl_tightvncviewer
	./bin/tightvncviewer

are the main programs you will run and will try to autodetect your OS+arch
combination and if binaries are present for it automatically use them.
(if not found try the running the build.unix script).

If you prefer a GUI to prompt for parameters and then start ssl_tightvncviewer
you can run this instead:

	./bin/ssl_vnc_gui

this is essentially the same GUI that is run on Windows (the
ssl_tightvncviewer.exe).

Using the GUI is it impossible to initiate a VNC connection that is not
encrypted with either SSL or SSH.  Unencrypted VNC connections can only
be started by manually running the ./bin/tightvncviewer script.

For convenience, you can make symlinks from a directory in your PATH to
any of the 3 programs above you wish to run.  That is all you usually
need to do for it to pick up all of the binaries, utils, etc. E.g.
assuming $HOME/bin is in your $PATH:

	cd $HOME/bin
	ln -s /path/to/enhanced_tightvnc_viewer/bin/{s,t}* .

(note the "." at the end). The above commands is basically the way to
"install" this package on Unix.


On Windows run:

	Windows/ssl_tightvncviewer.exe


Examples:
--------

Use enhanced TightVNC unix viewer to connect to x11vnc via SSL:

	./bin/ssl_tightvncviewer   far-away.east:0

	./bin/tightvncviewer -ssl  far-away.east:0   (same)

	./bin/ssl_vnc_gui                            (start GUI launcher)

Use enhanced TightVNC unix viewer without SSL:

	./bin/tightvncviewer far-away.east:0

Use SSL to connect to a x11vnc server, and also verify the server's
identity using the SSL Certificate in the file ./x11vnc.pem:

	./bin/ssl_tightvncviewer -alpha -verify ./x11vnc.pem far-away.east:0

(also turns on the viewer-side cursor alphablending hack). 


Brief description of the subdirectories:
---------------------------------------

	./bin/util		some utility scripts, e.g. ssl_vncviewer
				and ssl_tightvncviewer.tcl

	./src			source code and patches.
	./src/zips		zip files of source code and binaries.

	./src/vnc_unixsrc	unpacked tightvnc source code tree.
	./src/stunnel-4.14	unpacked stunnel source code tree.
	./src/patches		patches to TightVNC viewer for the new
				features on Unix (used by build.unix).
	./src/tmp		temporary build dir for build.unix
				(the last four are used by build.unix)


	./man			man pages for TightVNC viewer and stunnel.

	./Windows		Stock TightVNC viewer and Stunnel, Openssl
				etc Windows binaries. ssl_tightvncviewer.exe
				is the program to run.

Since they are large, depending on which package you use not all of the
above may be present in your package.


Help and Info:
-------------

For more help on other options and usage patterns run these:

	./bin/ssl_tightvncviewer -h
	./bin/tightvncviewer -h
	./bin/util/ssl_vncviewer -h

See also:

	http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc
	http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq
	x11vnc -h | more

	http://www.stunnel.org
	http://www.openssl.org
	http://www.tightvnc.com
        http://www.realvnc.com
        http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


Windows:
-------

	A wrapper to create a STUNNEL tunnel and then launch the
	Windows TightVNC viewer is provided in:

		Windows/ssl_tightvncviewer.exe

	Just launch it and fill in the remote VNC display.

	Click the Help buttons for more info.  There is also a
	Windows/README.txt file.

	On Windows you may need to terminate the STUNNEL process
	from the System Tray if the tool cannot terminate it
	by itself.  Just right-click on the STUNNEL icon.