Hello Zach... All your scenarios are valid. The program functionality COULD be perfect. What bothers us the conflict of "Secure Communications" with "trust" in someone who is paying lots of money for Internet band width to provide the service for no visible reason.
I'm sorry, I just can't fit the 2 of them under one hat! Jerry On Wednesday 02 March 2005 17:11, Paul Haskew wrote: > Ed, > > You might want to check out this long thread about Hamachi. > > -Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zach Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: A simple, solid and stable P2P Bidirectional NAT Traversal > technique for RealVNC users... > > Bob Hartung wrote: > > Since my last posting, I've been trying to play devil's advocate with > > this technology. I've been trying to imagine legitimate scenarios for > > using this technology in a business environment. So far, I haven't been > > able to do it. It still seems to be a technology whose primary purpose > > is to thwart firewalls and company usage policies. > > Well for starters. This is a great tool for the IS/IT dept in a company > and especially for admins. Maybe this won't work well for a typical end > user on a large corporate network, but this is great in smaller to > medium sized businesses and even SOHOs. If this works well with VNC, > then the worth of this product just went 100% in my book. > > Here are some example scenarios: > - In the northern country where it snows, the finance gal gets snowed > in or runs into a ditch (its happened before) so she works from home. > She needs to access some files from her work computer. (Her home > computer is also a company laptop). She calls the IT dept and makes a > request. The IT dept set her up to vnc into her machine from home and to > drag over her files (thx hamachi). > > - A programmer codes both at home and at work. He does some sample > coding at home late last night and then finds out tomorrow morning he > needs that code. He vnc's in to his computer and drags the files over. > (thx hamachi). > > - Engineers from a regional office are visiting headquarters. Their > meeting is at 2pm, it's 10am now. What to do for 4 hours. They get on an > extra workstation and vnc into their up north computer and review some > of their revisions from yesterday. They decide to include the new ideas > in their 2pm meeting. So they generate a pdf of their latest cad files. > They drag the pdf over to the current workstation, and print it out. > (thx hamachi) > > These are all scenarios our company has hit. And if I understand Hamachi > right, the solution should be similar to what they are above in each > example. If I dont' understand Hamachi right, please tell me. > > Zach > _______________________________________________ > 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
