<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I've not come across samba nmbd, thanks, great to know about. However, I'd want a solution for Apple and Linux users too.</div><div>John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2017 at 13:23, Mike DePaulo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikedep333@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikedep333@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 27, 2017 8:23 AM, "Stefan Baur" <<a href="mailto:X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de" target="_blank">X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-3791593158416570660quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-3791593158416570660quoted-text">Am 16.03.2017 um 18:28 schrieb John Cobo:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="m_-3791593158416570660elided-text">> I am considering X2Go for a project which involves non-technical people<br>
> using X2Go to connect to a Raspberry Pi which does not have a screen and<br>
> so the user will not know the Pi's IP address. I could set an SSH port<br>
> on the Pi to an obscure number such as 2432 or something.<br>
><br>
> Would it be feasible for the X2Go clients have a new option to scan a<br>
> range of IPs (eg. 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255) for a given port (eg.<br>
> 2432) on which to connect?<br>
><br>
> Such a feature could solve the generic problem of how to connect for the<br>
> first time to something new on your local network.<br>
<br>
</div>I've been giving this some more thought. I still believe that we<br>
shouldn't be adding such an option to X2GoClient, but there may be more<br>
comfortable ways of providing your users with a DNS name to connect to,<br>
rather than having to figure out an IP, even without<br>
APIPA/mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour.<br>
<br>
For that, you should tell us more about that usage scenario - will all<br>
those Raspis have full internet access? If not, are they being deployed<br>
on different subnets of one larger network where you could place one<br>
machine they all can reach?<br>
<br>
I'm thinking along the lines of using either a DynDNS server on the<br>
internet, with the Raspi reporting its internal IP instead of the<br>
external one, though, or setting up an internal DynDNS server.<br>
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-Stefan<br>
</font><div class="m_-3791593158416570660elided-text"></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-3791593158416570660quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-3791593158416570660elided-text"></div></blockquote></div></div></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">How about using samba nmbd on the raspberry pi? If you only have Windows clients, they'll be able to connect to the machine by netbios name, same as a DNS name, by default. This depends on no firewall blocking netbios traffic.</span></div></div>
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