Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Ahh, in the past when this came up it was usually the audio where various solutions would fail. The issue goes back about two decades when the RFB (Remote FrameBuffer) protocol was developed. Back then most remote server machines didn't do much important with audio besides beep, so the protocol

RE: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
What about using a vnc remote connection? You could vnc in to the mac from the windows machine. Or if your going the other wway you can get the Microsoft remote desktop connection app which gives you RDP connectivity between the mac and a widnows machine. -Original Message- From: macvi

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
NO, I was thinking of Apple Remote Desktop which is describe pretty well in this Wikipedia entry: The standard protocol that this currently uses is VNC. VNC has been around for at least 15 years, and I first saw it to share RedHat desktops on Windows computers. If you look at JAWS directories

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Are you saying you have both machines on your desk and just want to share one keyboard between both of them? CB On 3/16/16 7:38 AM, Carter Temm wrote: Hi all, I currently use both mac and windows in a business environment. What I am wondering, is there an application that you use to control

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Carter Temm
Hi, Could you be thinking of the injecting keys API? On 3/16/16, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Both JAWS and Macintosh do use the same basic underlying protocol for remote > windows. My brain is forgetting the name right now, but it is an open source > package, so I would expect that NVDA would use this

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Sounds are often pushed on a separate channel that the host computer would open on the remote machine / machines. It sounds like Apple remote does not allow this, but you could probably compile your own version of the remote software that would allow this, though obviously you would need to mai

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, the Wikipedia page on remote protocol implementations lists 72 different commercial and freeware programs to do this. One that looked like it works on Mac and does sound forwarding is call FREERPD . http://www.freerdp.com I was starting to think it might be interesting to look at SAPI

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Both JAWS and Macintosh do use the same basic underlying protocol for remote windows. My brain is forgetting the name right now, but it is an open source package, so I would expect that NVDA would use this to. Now the hard part would be routing the voice over to the remote controlling machine, I

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, I just rad the Wikki article myself and from this statement I am fairly confident that one could not remote VoiceOVer with ARd: “ARD does not support reverse connections to listening VNC viewers.” Time for the suggestion box I guess! If anybody wants to help by starting a list of reasons t

RE: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
ed the VNC connection but have assumed this would be the same situation. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2016 2:24 AM To: Macintosh Blindness List Subject: Re: Remote control so

RE: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
isionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2016 1:23 AM To: Macintosh Blindness List Subject: Re: Remote control software for mac and windows? Both JAWS and Macintosh do use the same basic underlying protocol for remote windows. My brain is forgetting the name right now,

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-18 Thread Carter Temm
I was more thinking over a longer distance, in the case I would not be able to here the speech. However, it could be helpful to know of resources that would work closer and not need speech. Because like stated before, I could always use something such as loopback or soundflower if needed, hopefully

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

2016-03-18 Thread Carter Temm
ok, then my next question. I have used teamviewer a bit, and from what I've seen its pretty inaccessible. Has anyone had any luck? I also know you can't here audio of the machine your controlling.. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 16, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > NO, I was thinking