On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Jarvis, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you saying that they want to get to their desktops i.e. to work on > stuff, or that from time to time they need YOU to get to their desktops?
Sorry I muddled up a couple of things: I'm all set. We do remote access from our office to all of our clients just fine. This one client now wants to work from the road, from his laptop or home and wants remote access. I suspect that once the boss has access, several of the others will want it, too. Our solution is rather primitive (ssh, VNC and WinSCP3 and YES, ALL OPEN SOURCE!!!) and I'm looking around for other solutions: UltraVNC has a couple of promising ideas, like: 1. using a repeater or an intermediary on the internet through which both client and server link, but the UltraVNC pages are a couple years old and I suspect that hasn't moved forward. 2. I could hand-code VNC/PuTTY configurations for each machine and write up instructions for them to access it. 3. Setting up an OpenVNC as Paul McNett suggests, and giving the users access that way. 4. Look at commercial solutions like LogMeIn or Fog Creek's CoPilot. So, I'm looking for suggestions for what a "user" would use to get remote access to his/her desktop. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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.
