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Feature Request - IPv6 and Pure Server Mode
thehammer86:
--- Quote from: mwillems on October 28, 2015, 07:55:41 am ---The amount of memory used by a low impact window manager (like openbox or something) is pretty trivial, and I'm not sure the attack surface of a web client is necessarily lower than a properly safeguarded VNC connection. None of that really matters in a home context though (if your server is offsite, I get it).
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With IPv6 NAT no longer exists. All your devices are publicly accessible and although they would still be firewalled, in this day and age you need a few layers of protection.
Hendrik:
--- Quote from: thehammer86 on October 28, 2015, 07:59:12 am ---With IPv6 NAT no longer exists. All your devices are publicly accessible and although they would still be firewalled, in this day and age you need a few layers of protection.
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NAT existing or not is not really the point. A proper router would still not forward incoming connections unless explicitly set up to do so, so IMHO the only big difference to before is that you get a different kind of IP address, security wise you are in the same boat.
Unless your router is configured rather insecurely and forwards anything and everything without question, of course.
In any case, the X dependency is not likely to go away anytime soon. Its rather deep in the core.
thehammer86:
I'm not asking for the JRiver development team to get rid of the GUI for Linux. GUI's do serve their purpose. However, clicking on a button in a GUI executes a script which writes code to another script and so on and so forth. A web interface for remote administration of the server is not something unreasonable to ask for. The MCWS interface is simply for controlling playback and not for configuring the application in great detail.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: thehammer86 on October 28, 2015, 07:59:12 am ---With IPv6 NAT no longer exists. All your devices are publicly accessible and although they would still be firewalled, in this day and age you need a few layers of protection.
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I think this is going to be an interesting problem. I haven't studied it very hard, but I've reviewed some material from someone I know in the IPV6 working group and what you way is essentially correct. The thinking on how home firewalling works is going to have to change because the whole "block by default" paradigm just isn't the same with IPV6's "no NAT" philosophy. But that's way off topic. I just wanted to acknowledge it.
As to X11 being a compatibility problem... well X11 has always required some mucking around to be perfect. I'm not sure what you've experienced, but I haven't had any big issues with it. I don't really use Linux these days, so maybe I shouldn't be commenting... but I do have a VERY long history with Unix and X11. I first customized an X11 window manager in 1991.
I've run X11 on at least 5 flavors of unix (including many versions of Linux) and VNC on 2 or 3 flavors of unix. All without issue. VNC sometimes requires some customization to the startup script, but it's essentially an add on "display" for X, so it mostly just works.
Now, in a perfect world, MC having a web configuration interface would be neat. MC running as a pure daemon would be neat. I absolutely concede those points. But as Hendrik said, it wasn't designed that way from the ground up. MC for Linux is a desktop application that happens to also run on Linux.
Personally, I'm just happy that the best media manager on the planet runs on all three big platforms, and runs well. :)
Brian.
thehammer86:
Thanks for acknowledging the IPv6 difficulties blgentry.
I've found X11 really buggy from the perspective of high performance video cards. Even the slightest modification to either the video card driver version and/or Linux kernel version seems to trip up X11 in my personal experience.
I also agree that JRiver MC is the best media manager on the planet.
I have two close friends that are hard core programmers working for big data firms here in Toronto and they (believe it or not) use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server as their backend and they swear by it. I use OwnCloud as a personal backup service for and also run a home mail server so I've had a lot of fun playing around with different interfaces and platforms. I hope JRiver considers making a Linux pure daemon as you suggest.
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