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ultravnc
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It's not too complicated to setup, there should be a few guides on the net, just google.
I've used Tight VNC (a different version) but they're pretty much the same.
Basically, on the PC you want to connect TO, you install the service, (run setup) and you enter a password and that's about it, if it asks you to install it as a system service, say yes.
Then on the client PC, that you're sitting at, run the VNC Viewer and enter the machine's name or the IP address. You may have to enter the PC's name/IP with a port number, ie: when it asks you for the hostname/IP you enter mypcname:0 or :1 depending.
If you find VNC too slow, you might want to use Windows XP's remote desktop feature, it's a lot faster.
I've used Tight VNC (a different version) but they're pretty much the same.
Basically, on the PC you want to connect TO, you install the service, (run setup) and you enter a password and that's about it, if it asks you to install it as a system service, say yes.
Then on the client PC, that you're sitting at, run the VNC Viewer and enter the machine's name or the IP address. You may have to enter the PC's name/IP with a port number, ie: when it asks you for the hostname/IP you enter mypcname:0 or :1 depending.
If you find VNC too slow, you might want to use Windows XP's remote desktop feature, it's a lot faster.
bdt
Executive Member
UltraVNC is a pretty good branch on the overall VNC tree and, for local network admin work is my preference over TightVNC (in the absence of XP Pro's RDP). But if you find yourself having to talk a [luser,id10t,pebkac_problem] through something and you're on opposite ends of a phone line, this recent discovery will ROCK your world! (it did mine ..too many years of frustrating support calls)
Here's the guff:
This thing is easy enough to use that you can email the .exe or direct your caller to the site and tell 'em to hit the big, friendly-looking FREE DOWNLOAD button and then run the setup (and anyway, this is a once-off). Once installed, it really IS as easy as they say and I've very successfully helped out a buddy a few times on his laptop - with him connected via Voda3G and me on iBurst. Sure, the screen redraws are a bit laggy - but that's always been a VNC artefact and they're at least running TightVNC as their engine. IMO this is an absolutely essential tech-support tool.
Here's the guff:
This thing is easy enough to use that you can email the .exe or direct your caller to the site and tell 'em to hit the big, friendly-looking FREE DOWNLOAD button and then run the setup (and anyway, this is a once-off). Once installed, it really IS as easy as they say and I've very successfully helped out a buddy a few times on his laptop - with him connected via Voda3G and me on iBurst. Sure, the screen redraws are a bit laggy - but that's always been a VNC artefact and they're at least running TightVNC as their engine. IMO this is an absolutely essential tech-support tool.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
VNC rox!
Without VNC we would have to drive out to site...
...or buy pcAnywhere licences...
Without VNC we would have to drive out to site...
...or buy pcAnywhere licences...
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
Another option to simplify any sort of comms over the web is hamachi
google it - it's free and makes a vpn connection a breeze - even over firewalls. You can then run anything you would usually run over the lan - hamachi is also 256k secured.
As far as speed is concerned - NOTHING I have seen beats ol' windows netmeeting for speed... just click start, run and "conf"
Set up remote desktop sharing under tools and away you go...
very fast...
google it - it's free and makes a vpn connection a breeze - even over firewalls. You can then run anything you would usually run over the lan - hamachi is also 256k secured.
As far as speed is concerned - NOTHING I have seen beats ol' windows netmeeting for speed... just click start, run and "conf"
Set up remote desktop sharing under tools and away you go...
very fast...
bdt
Executive Member
CrossLoop is a support-tech dream-come-true - specially the ones that don't want to buy commercial products: it allows (me) a tech to sit tight with a decent 'net connection (even iBurst works!)
and, more importantly, leaves the customer ENTIRELY in control of when a session runs. As to an automated system, as friend Onepostwonder says: Hamachi (and (Ultra)VNC) is your preferred cocktail for starts-with-Windoze-service-app love.
Of course, if you have XP_Pro on both sides you can get by with just Hamachi and RDP.
thanks everyone..gonna try hamachi
only reason i didn't try crossloop:
"For Crossloop it is essential for someone to be at the other pc right? i actually need to connect to my home pc from work so I can't click the connect button on my home pc. any other ideas?"
"For Crossloop it is essential for someone to be at the other pc right? i actually need to connect to my home pc from work so I can't click the connect button on my home pc. any other ideas?"