Re: Questions About RealVNC Personal Edition...
I have been using Enterprise Edition for several years and very happy with it. I have not used encryption but other than that it is an excellent product. Although I am still at 4.2.9 version since none of the new features interest me. You can answer most of your questions by downloading a trial version of software and testing it. As far as overhead goes, vnc is using some sort of a block cipher (aes or blowfish, I think) which does not create overhead or creates very little overhead. So using encryption your speed should be the same. One advantage of paid vnc over a free one is mirror driver. Over fast links desktop feels almost like local. On unix though free version is completely adequate. You can try tight vnc which also has mirror driver and should have somewhat better encoding over slow links. Also you could try remote desktop which comes with windows and is pretty good. Alex On 12/10/2009 3:01 PM, Peter Bunn wrote: Hello: For over a year, I've been using RealVNC (free version) through an SSH tunnel to administer my Dad's Windows XP computer from several hundred miles away. Recently, his older machine went south and a new one was purchased for him. I have it mostly restored to the previous setup, but ran into a problem with the SSH program I'd been using... and may want to abandon it. I'm wondering if the RealVNC Personal Edition would be a better solution for me, and I have a few questions... Is it as secure as the VNC over SSH tunnel method in all respects? Can the VNC service be run on a non-standard port (if desired) using the 'native' (XP SP3) Windows Firewall? Would it be possible to run Personal Edition 'side by side' with the free version (on the same target machine) to provide a backup method? I'm still on a dialup connection (with no hope of getting broadband anytime soon) and the VNC/SSH combination I'd been using, while slow, was 'survivable'... and a good bit faster than the web access service I had as backup. With the added encryption overhead, will the Personal Edition of RealVNC likely be noticeably slower than the free version? Any/all replies welcome and appreciated. Thanks. Peter B. - ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
Re: Questions About RealVNC Personal Edition...
The short answer is NO On Dec 15, 2009, at 08:23 AM, Robin Hill wrote: On Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 05:01:44PM -0600, Peter Bunn wrote: I'm wondering if the RealVNC Personal Edition would be a better solution for me, and I have a few questions... Is it as secure as the VNC over SSH tunnel method in all respects? That depends really on what encryption they're using - this doesn't seem to be documented anywhere though. I doubt it'll have quite the same level of rigorous testing as openssh has been through though (unless they're using openssl under the hood anyway). That's unlikely to make any difference for this sort of usage though. Can the VNC service be run on a non-standard port (if desired) using the 'native' (XP SP3) Windows Firewall? Would it be possible to run Personal Edition 'side by side' with the free version (on the same target machine) to provide a backup method? You'd be best addressing these to the RealVNC support/sales emails. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to run it on a non-standard port though. Running it side-by-side is likely to be problematic though. I'm still on a dialup connection (with no hope of getting broadband anytime soon) and the VNC/SSH combination I'd been using, while slow, was 'survivable'... and a good bit faster than the web access service I had as backup. With the added encryption overhead, will the Personal Edition of RealVNC likely be noticeably slower than the free version? Shouldn't be - you're trading the ssh encryption overhead for the RealVNC encryption overhead. The alternative is to stick with ssh - you should be able to run openssh server with cygwin, or freeSSHd (www.freesshd.com) is a more user-friendly server. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hillro...@robinhill.me.uk | / / ) | Little Jim says | // !! | He fallen in de water !! | ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Dale Eshelman eshelm...@gmail.com MonaVie (Distr ID 1316953) http://www.monavie.com/Web/US/en/product_overview.dhtml The closer I get to the pain of glass in Windoz, the farther I can see and I see a Mac on the horizon. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
how to remote to clients PC for troubleshooting?
Hi, How can I remote into a clients computer (miles away and not on a network) to troubleshoot it? Could I operate from a Mac this way into a PC? Which version will I need? Enterprise? Thank you. Chris ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
ATT as service provider
My iPhone will not access my VNC server whenever ATT is the ISP for the iPhone. The iPhone will, however, access the server when connected by Wifi to an ISP other than ATT. Any suggestions as to why this is happening or how to get around it? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: how to remote to clients PC for troubleshooting?
Well, the client machine has to be reachable by some sort of network or you can forget it! RealVNC does work reasonably well over dial-up, even; otherwise, you need to set up a virtual server (other terms are used) within the broadband router. See http://www.portforward.com/ for details on how to do this. (Port 5900). If the PC connects directly to the Internet (e.g. by using a USB modem rather than a router) then you can connect from your end having adjusted any firewall on the machine to allow this. If your client is not up to configuring the necessary forwarding, then you can run a viewer in Listening mode at your end and have your client (person!) initiate the connection from the server at their end - then it's up to you to do the port-forwarding on your own router (5500 in this direction). Of course, you have to have the server installed on the machine-to-be-controlled and a viewer on your own machine. The Enterprise Viewer is free to download and there is a free version for XP and below which can be run on the PC. For Vista or 7 (?) you need to buy the Personal or Enterprise versions, as the free one falls foul of the tighter security architecture in these later versions of Windows. Philip Herlihy -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Chris R. Johnson Sent: 16 December 2009 19:45 To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: how to remote to clients PC for troubleshooting? Hi, How can I remote into a clients computer (miles away and not on a network) to troubleshoot it? Could I operate from a Mac this way into a PC? Which version will I need? Enterprise? Thank you. Chris ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
