On Mon, February 23, 2009 10:36 am, Charlie Coleman wrote: > There are multiple "flavors" of VNC out there. I happen to use UltraVNC. > I'm pretty sure you can have many sessions on 1 server. But I think the > purpose of VNC is to give true "console" access. Not "fake" access as in > Terminal Server et. al. So, when the server is sharing the console to > multiple clients, I think they're all looking at the console. > > If I get a chance I'll try to check this out today. > > >> My thoughts were related to whether an app could be reliably accessed >> from anywhere with an internet connection, especially as there now >> appears to be a dependable Windows VNC client (ActivX or Java?). If >> there are likely to be firewall difficulties then perhaps this is not >> quite such a good suggestion. > > VNC (it's various flavors) has indeed been much more reliable than any > other remote access I've tried. But the standard free versions don't come > with encrypting options (as I recall). I think some give an option to > purchase an encryption plug-in. Without those there are the usual fears > of intercepting VNC traffic. Firewalls, etc can cause problems if you have > no input into what is allowed through or not. But I've previously set up > my firewall to allow VNC traffic through (specifying port, etc) and it > worked fine. But generally, only use it on my internal network and not > remotely.
fwiw, I've had great success with LogMeIn Rescue for my clients. It's about $99/month but if you need simple, it doesn't get much easier than this, especially when the user on the other end of the line is Suzie Simpleton who knows practically nothing about computers. LogMeIn Free is also good (...especially for that price--free). _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
