Thank you for providing a review. Would it be possible to get more technical info from you about this product?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Expert VNC - An Independent Review > > After Joel Bomgaars posted his topic advertising Expert VNC to the list, > there was quite a bit of controversy over it, weather it > legal, secure, the cost, etc. > I too posted a reply, asking a few questions regarding these issues, at > which point Joel offered to give me a demo copy, to test, and > give an independent review. > So I did! > How did I demo the program? Well I have a friend who at Uni in Portsmouth > (UK), her net connection is behind a firewall, which allows > outgoing traffic, but blocks incoming. It would be interesting to hear what other methods you have used to try to connect to her in the past. > I emailed her the server demo (which is only 265k), and ran my viewer > demo (126k). Are these the size of an "install" program or the actually executables? (More later.) > When she opened the server demo, I gave her my IP > address, which she entered into the connection box. This then goes out > through her firewall, and connects to my viewer. This sounds like the "Add New Client" functionality already in RealVNC. > This means > there is pretty good security, you can't connect to a users PC, with out > them running the server, and then entering your IP address. This can be accomplished by unchecking "Accept socket connections". That makes it so the server can only be used via the above mentioned "Add New Client". [snip] > Is it legal? Again I'm no expert, but VNC is open source, and distributed > under the GNU General Public License and none of the original > VNC files have been modified, so as far as I can see, yes! If the size values given above are for the executables something is different than RealVNC (vncviewer - 228k, WinVNC+vnchooks.dll - 384K). If they are the size of setup programs there must not be much to the additional scripts that the author has said contain the "Expert VNC" functions. What files are you actually executing to start the connection and receive the connection? [snip] > However, I think the cost per license ($495) is maybe a little on the > steep side, I'm sure more people would be interested, if the cost > were halved or something, or the pricing scheme re-worked/re-worded, so > you get the server for free, but host you pay for. I think that part of the VNC community might be interested. Most would be able to set up their own tunneling with stunnel, SSH, Zeebede, etc and get encryption of the traffic as a bonus. -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
