Something like this is one of the new features that where written into the new version of VNCScan. It would be tuff to open the add/remove programs on the remote computer, but it wouldn't be very hard to get the list of installed programs on that computer and present you with a list.
The feature that makes things like this possible is the new VNCScan Service that you can push out to the remote desktops and perform Administrative functions with. Communications are secured with a private key and reasonable encryption. Some of the things that you'll be able to do with the first version of the service include executing a command script on the remote computer, finding who is logged into a computer, rebooting it, and setting the various settings of the remote VNC server. (much more, too) If you're good at writing your own WSH scripts or if you have 3rd party programs that accept command line parameters, you'll be able to add custom commands to the right-click menu and those menu items will launch whatever program or script you specify and pass it the selected computer address by replacing the %host% variable. For example, if you have a program named wakeup.exe that will wake up a computer on the LAN if you issue a command: WAKEUP.EXE /COMPUTER:SLEEPINGCOMPUTER.DOMAIN.COM, you can make the new menu command in VNCScan say, 'C:\WAKEUP.EXE /COMPUTER:%HOST% and VNCScan will replace the %HOST% with the name of the selected computer and launch the command. Is this cool or what?! Thank you to Eric Chapuis for the suggestion on this. All of this functionality is already completed and in beta testing. If you'd like to beta test this new version, just email me and let me know. Please give me a rudimentary description of your environment, too. Nothing too specific; just the OS versions and how many computer and such. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Westrick Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Can VNC Do This? On Thursday 27 January 2005 17:47, ANDREW WRIGHT wrote: > I want to use VNC for some remote administration at work. But I don't > want to connect to the desktop. I want to just open the GUI for a > specific application from a remote computer on my computer. For > example, suppose I have a computer named remote1. I want to open the > Add/Remove Programs GUI from remote1 on my desktop. That way I can see > what programs remote1 has installed. I don't want to connect to the > desktop. If I could only open the GUI to a program, it wouldn't bother the user and they could keep working. > Nope, only the GUI would be running on the Screen of the user... > Can VNC do this? If not, does anyone know of something that will? > VNC can, but windows cannot. > Thanks! No Prbm Jerry > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
