[X2Go-Dev] X2Go client to search for server?

[Stefan Baur]

Am 16.03.2017 um 18:28 schrieb John Cobo:

> I am considering X2Go for a project which involves non-technical people
> using X2Go to connect to a Raspberry Pi which does not have a screen and
> so the user will not know the Pi's IP address. I could set an SSH port
> on the Pi to an obscure number such as 2432 or something.
> 
> Would it be feasible for the X2Go clients have a new option to scan a
> range of IPs (eg. 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255) for a given port (eg.
> 2432) on which to connect?
> 
> Such a feature could solve the generic problem of how to connect for the
> first time to something new on your local network.

I've been giving this some more thought.  I still believe that we
shouldn't be adding such an option to X2GoClient, but there may be more
comfortable ways of providing your users with a DNS name to connect to,
rather than having to figure out an IP, even without
APIPA/mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour.

For that, you should tell us more about that usage scenario - will all
those Raspis have full internet access?  If not, are they being deployed
on different subnets of one larger network where you could place one
machine they all can reach?

I'm thinking along the lines of using either a DynDNS server on the
internet, with the Raspi reporting its internal IP instead of the
external one, though, or setting up an internal DynDNS server.

-Stefan

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