12-18-2020, 09:40 AM
(12-16-2020, 09:41 PM)randomq Wrote: UH doesn't allow VNC? Or RDP? They will all work over a VPN connection. For that matter you can hide VNC inside an ssh connection inside the VPN. Or use a reverse ssh tunnel (autossh, using key auth) out of UH to your primary and backup connections, and run whatever you want over that. Your rogue VNC server can even be set to compress aggressively to save bandwidth (and use solid color backgrounds etc).Let me try to clear this up. UKIRT has just transferred to being operated by the IfA (UH). At this time, I have VPN access but not VNC despite being promised I would have that access weeks ago. VPN means I can login to a secure system, VNC means I can set up a remote display of my computer at work. Since I have yet to have a work computer at UH, and for whatever reason, it seems difficult for UH to give me VNC access to the computers controlling the telescope and our operations.
Most fun, though, would be a wireless/laser link from the observatories to your house. I wonder how high you'd have to go for a clear shot.
However, I can still access the systems via the EAO (East Asian Observatory) which is where we ran UKIRT for the last few years. However, that is about to go away.
It is quite a change. For 24 years I worked with competent people, but now, due to Federal interference forcing this change, especially in the last couple of years, the telescope and its systems cannot be run remotely unless you go into the office, and yet we're told to work from home. This is a big downside of having the UH take over telescope operations. They do not know how to do it.